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by arms 12y ago
As someone that's recently started working with Clojure (and soon ClojureScript), I wonder the same thing. My first guess is that people are unfortunately and unjustly turned off by its Lisp pedigree. I've been using and enjoying
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by arms 12y ago
I'm genuinely curious why you think JavaScript is comfortably #1 within the domain of Python, Ruby and PHP. I've been writing (client side) JavaScript for a very long time, and I generally enjoy it, but I don't see myself aba
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by arms 12y ago
I've been using LightTable, but plan on switching to Emacs soon. The only reason I haven't done so already is learning Clojure is challenging enough without also coming to grips with a new editor :)
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by arms 12y ago
I just finished a long coding session (it's 3AM here), and was about to go to sleep before I saw this. Looks like I won't be going to bed for awhile longer... :)
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by arms 12y ago
I agree that most of the authentication belongs on the backend, but there's still the question of how best to handle/recognize authenticated users and authorized requests on the frontend. Should I be using JSON web tokens, or cook
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by arms 12y ago
I would love to see a section on authentication and authorization best practices. From my research, it doesn't seem like this is covered as well as it should be in various Angular resources. This isn't a knock against the OP - j
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by arms 12y ago
So I'm about half way through it now. I'm really impressed with how much information it's conveying in a succinct form. I'm going through Clojure for the Brave and True, and think this supplements it nicely. There are a
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by arms 12y ago
Good to know! I started with emacs, but decided to use Light Table for now. Nothing against emacs, but I don't want to make things harder by learning a new language and a new editor at the same time. Aside from Light Table (and presu
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by arms 12y ago
I'm currently learning Clojure. For all the "aha!" moments, there are plenty of "WTFs?", too. Not that it's a fault of the language, it's just that it requires a different way of looking at things. I'
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by arms 12y ago
None taken. I got the impression from comments on HN and elsewhere. To be fair, those comments might've been from Node advocates, so they could've been skewed. Is one of the (main) problems that the registry is often unavailable?
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by arms 12y ago
Why do you think NPM is "the most unreliable package manager"? I don't use Node, but I thought the general consensus was that it's one of the best out there. I'm genuinely curious.
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by arms 12y ago
Wow - perfect timing. My copy of Clojure Programming should be delivered tomorrow, and this looks like a nice way to complement my learning. Plus, I love Tetris :)
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by arms 12y ago
Good for Adam. These patent trolls are reprehensible. It's hilarious that they want to pull out now that they stand a chance of losing.
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by arms 12y ago
I definitely see how this would be useful for automated tasks. I have some python scripts doing a fair bit of automated data munging that would probably benefit from being written in Erlang/Elixir. Slight tangent - people often say lea
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by arms 12y ago
I love the concept of Elixir, but is it used out in the wild much? A language's popularity, or lack thereof, has little influence on whether I'll learn it or not, but I'm always curious about this.
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by arms 12y ago
"you have to be even more careful that you're not just copying patterns from one app to another" Absolutely. I hope my post didn't convey the opposite. The way I see it is that the designers of the language know more tha
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by arms 12y ago
To the author's points of committing and staying idiomatic, I'd recommend rewriting an existing application in your new language of choice. It doesn't need to be a 1:1 port, but by porting over the basic/foundational pie
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by arms 12y ago
I'm curious why you think Golang doesn't support concurrency properly.
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by arms 12y ago
Very cool! I think detailed examples like this are much more conducive to getting a feel for a language when you're just starting out than the typical "sift through the official docs then build a Hello World example." I'
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by arms 12y ago
I was tasked with using ExtJS for a large project, without having prior experience with it. It was both a dream and a nightmare for me (OK, that's a bit dramatic, but it was a mixed bag.) In the end, I was able to do what I needed to,
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by arms 12y ago
I'd be very interested to know what flexibility you think javascript provides that python doesn't. I have nothing against JS (I usually enjoy writing JS), but IMO it doesn't begin to offer anywhere near the functionality or b
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by arms 12y ago
Such as?
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by arms 12y ago
This is one of the better Haskell videos I've seen - it's nice to see use cases in a high speed environment like the NYT.
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by arms 12y ago
Thank you, I found this very helpful. I'm being selfish, but I'd love some more examples like this where you compare the basics in Haskell against more mainstream, imperative languages - it makes it easier to digest.
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by arms 12y ago
It's common to use SQLAlchemy with Flask, so the answer depends on how comfortable you are with that ORM. That being said, you should absolutely at least learn the basics of working directly with databases. ORMs are a leaky abstraction
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by arms 12y ago
I would much sooner introduce someone to Flask than I would to PHP and Laravel (which is, IMO, the best current PHP framework.) Flask has an easier learning curve than Django, and is able to handle small to large applications. Plus, Python
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by arms 13y ago
Very cool! I always like seeing when something is built using a typically non-traditional language for the environment. I downloaded the game to see how well it performed, and I gotta say, it's a lot of fun. Great job!
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by arms 13y ago
I really like this suggestion. I'm in the process of learning Haskell now, and plan on using this as a practical learning exercise. Out of curiosity, how difficult did you find this to complete?
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by arms 13y ago
405 days ago... ;)
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by arms 13y ago
As someone who was obsessed with Lemmings back in the day, this is the best thing I've seen on HN in weeks :) It brings back fond memories.

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