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by anta40 2y ago
BASIC (QB, and VB6) were my earliest exposures to programming. As a high schooler in 2001, only a very few were interested in learning programming (yes the geeks). Good old times. Eventually I switched to Java because of mobile apps (J2ME),
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by anta40 2y ago
>> making lots of improvements to K-9 Such as...?
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by anta40 2y ago
>> As engineers, we are, by nature, attracted to novel solutions If the context is professional work, then no, I'm afraid. I'm always looking for least suprising, well-understood way. After all, I'm working on a team.
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by anta40 2y ago
NPP is one of the must have apps when I install a Windows system. Now I mostly work on Mac... feel happy with CudaText: https://cudatext.github.io/
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by anta40 2y ago
Embarcadero's improved fork: https://www.embarcadero.com/free-tools/dev-cpp
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by anta40 2y ago
I'm on M2 Mac (Sonoma 14.5). How to run this? ./anvil [1] 25270 killed ./anvil chmod +x, xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine etc don't work.
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by anta40 2y ago
I'm a mobile app developer. Mobility is preferrable. And I don't need the most powerful dev machine.
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by anta40 2y ago
For most (or lots of cases), it's easily readable, printable, and searchable.
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Why Dom96 Left Nim?
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by anta40 2y ago
I'm not interested in cutting-edge smartphones anymore. Not sure what's the advantage because my use cases are pretty minimalists: Whatsapp, email, social medias, online shopping, mobile banking, and a little bit of photo editing.
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by anta40 2y ago
Yep. But I can work practically everywhere with my laptop (I'm a mobile app dev and ocassional back-end dev). No question PC is still #1 for upgradibility. If I'm an avid gamer or a video editor, then yes definitely will use PC, i
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by anta40 2y ago
Ah seems fascinating. Bookmarked.
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by anta40 2y ago
I see... so Racket is the most likely choice for work. Obviously won't use it for my office though, considering Scheme devs here are practically... zero. Or probably I'll just use Scheme for learning compiler dev :) :D
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by anta40 2y ago
"I’d like to use a (somewhat) wider range of basic symbols than whatever we had in ASCII last century. Even allowing comparison operators like ≤, <, ≠ and = that align consistently would be a useful start" That's already d
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by anta40 2y ago
So, what's the recommended Scheme implementation to "get things done", and not only for learning CS stuffs? For example, now our backend system is mostly implemented in Go (some with Fiber, some with Echo). The rest are prett
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by anta40 2y ago
Perhaps, but probably don't attract many users like it used to be. For backend, some switched to Go. And on Android, some already switched to Kotlin.
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by anta40 2y ago
https://github.com/bf-enterprise-solutions/os.bf/blob/master... An entire OS in 252 lines. I wonder how many CPU architectures supported by this OS :D
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by anta40 2y ago
Try give a look at kraken: https://github.com/sal0max/kraken It's a native Android app (Kotlin) which isn't developed using Android Studio. Gradle only.
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by anta40 2y ago
As an Android dev who use Android Studio for daily work, I confirm updating Gradle may break your projects, well depends on the libraries you used. In other cases, updating Gradle won't give any problem. You can build the APK fine. D
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by anta40 2y ago
Whoa, looks very cool. So far, my favourite project is xv6, because: - codebase is reasonably compact, can be understood in a few weeks - can be built with standard GCC provided by package manager, no need to built a custom GCC from source
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by anta40 2y ago
That's a higher bar. When I was undergrad student, A was > 85% and F was very likely 0 - 30% (??). Probably I still have my student guide book stored somewhere else. And also there's D & E. Yes, my academic transcript shows
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by anta40 2y ago
For an application developer like me? No. It's technically not a dealbreaker. But probably more like a question for compiler devs.
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by anta40 2y ago
I wonder if Go tooling does the job umm... "better" here. At least faster build time and debug build is much smaller. At my current company, we handle payment, transaction etc with Go (some Fiber, some Echo). None of the projects
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by anta40 2y ago
Well fair point. During my university days, there were 2 prominent Java-based IDEs: Eclipse and Netbeans. Even after installing some plugins, Eclipse ran faster, and thus become my primary IDE. I kinda miss Eclipse. On the other side, seems
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by anta40 2y ago
The "Java resource hog" is still a thing...in a few areas. As an Android dev, I still see complaints (most likely by beginners) saying how Android Studio consumes much RAM and asking if it's possible to replace it with.. VSCo
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by anta40 2y ago
I also started learning programming in high school days (2001 - 2004) using TP 7. Fast, affordable internet connection wasn't pretty common on those days, so have to rely on internet cafes and books/magazies. As the name implies,
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by anta40 2y ago
One of my dev machines for Android dev is a MacBook Air 2017 (8 GB RAM). Not super fast obviously, but still okay-ish. Just don't use emulator and debug on real device instead. Well, not that bad.
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by anta40 2y ago
I'm still happy with vim/nvim as daily work tools (also currently exploring kakoune and helix... because why not). Think of vim/nvim setup as a one time process: a bit complicated, but once done then you are ready to go. Of c
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by anta40 2y ago
Ahhh.... sounds like tweaking vim/nvim (which is one of my daily tools). Sure the possibility to tweak the UI is limitless, but at least there are minimum usable UI, like gvim (Windows, Linux) or macvim (macOS) which are easy to instal
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by anta40 2y ago
Ah... I used JavaFX for in-house tools a few years ago. Now I'm on different company and mostly work on Android apps. Practically see zero demand for desktop apps nowadays. Well, perhaps for personal projects, then :)

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