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by adev_ 8y ago
> The transition to python 3 is more more a matter about a migration execution rather than a technical aspect related to strings (which I don’t find that terrible, especially given all facilities provided to make the migration easier to
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by adev_ 8y ago
The last language I would take as an example for string is python. The disastrous handling of the transition python2 to python3 with UTF-8 string and the idiosyncratic nonsense like " ''.join([str1, str2]) to concat anything
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by adev_ 8y ago
Being "Swiss made" does not make me trust you more if you are proprietary. Privacy and proprietary software are mutually exclusive. That's a big disadvantage you have in front of Signal, Matrix and alternatives.
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by adev_ 8y ago
> First of all, bake does not rely on an online package repository. As long as you have access to git, or have local copies of your git repositories, you're good. You'll never lose productivity because your internet connection
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by adev_ 8y ago
thanks
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by adev_ 8y ago
It was discussed for Meson when they included the "subproject" support as major issue for all the GNOME components for most linux distributions. There is some note here https://mesonbuild.com/Subprojects.html or h
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by adev_ 8y ago
Cool. One more "new" build system after Meson ( https://mesonbuild.com/ ), Scons ( https://scons.org/ ), "Modern" CMake ( https://cmake.org/ ), Waf ( https://waf.io&
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by adev_ 8y ago
> In contrast, Python has very little variation in aesthetic pleasingness. It's all the same Dutch Utilitarian Modernist, perfectly OK if unexciting to look at Really ? Python would probably be the last language I would quote for &q
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by adev_ 8y ago
> The end-user experience is aesthetically improved, but do not stare into the abyss of the template definitions. That is getting better and better with time. C++14 with generic lambda, C++17 with constexpr and C++20 with concepts imrpo
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by adev_ 8y ago
> FWIW, I have been experimenting with auto-generating CMake from my Bazel BUILD file for my project https://github.com/google/upb . My plan is to use Bazel for development but have the CMake build be a fully support
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Many of your other ones are byproducts of the fact that Bazel is primarily a build-from-source system. This has some benefits, particularly in a C++ ecosystem where binary compatibility across versions basically doesn't exist. But
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by adev_ 8y ago
Lucky you, I never met a user outside of Google that like it.
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by adev_ 8y ago
The list would be too long but out of order : - Using a JVM to compile mainly C++ and python, implying to deploy a JDK/JRE just for that. - Awful RAM consumption, compiling tensorflow takes 16GB of RAM to create a python wheel - Try to
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by adev_ 8y ago
By the sake of god, please try to add also a more friendly build system too. Bazel is a disaster that would almost make maven looks lightweight, npm reliable and autotools userfriendly.
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by adev_ 8y ago
> Apps have been free to abuse UDP all this time, but it's not been a real issue. Even data-hungry applications like video-streaming have gone with TCP almost every time. In the past Bittorrent and the creation of the µTP prooved
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by adev_ 8y ago
It has been disable by default and is not even compiled-in anymore on all major linux distributions ( RHEL, Debian, ubuntu ). >(gdb) gr Guile scripting is not supported in this copy of GDB.
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by adev_ 8y ago
Because nobody want to program in (((( Guile )))), to the point that even GDB disable its support as extension language.
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by adev_ 8y ago
I'm using Nix to download packages and its dependencies to a cluster of 250 nodes around 10 times per week. And it always does that.
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by adev_ 8y ago
Thank to Open Source that, it looks a great project. Could a LogDevice give a bit of informations about the scale they use that at facebook ? - How many record this thing can injest per day ? - Any limitations on the maximum number of stora