balencpp

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by balencpp 2mo ago
Doesn't apply as much to Clojurescript due to it being dynamically typed and its flexibility. Sure, you often write a wrapper, but it's more of an abstraction and a good practice, not a necessity in cljs.
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by balencpp 1y ago
R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs` That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in t
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by balencpp 1y ago
What are you implying by that?
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by balencpp 1y ago
So you make incrementing a counter a full page reload?
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by balencpp 2y ago
They’re not mutually exclusive. Most of the large performance improvements are from .NET, the runtime and compilers. They’re not related to C#.
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by balencpp 2y ago
.NET has come to be a very solid, performant, cross-platform, productive runtime. I always come back to it for most projects. Thanks to everyone involved!
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by balencpp 2y ago
There is no lock-in to Microsoft in C#. It hasn't been like that for years, and it's only getting better. IDE wise, there is Rider, which is free now, and one of the best IDE experiences you will have in any language (I personally
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by balencpp 2y ago
Did you discover Scala 3 and give it a thought? I think of it as Rust with an _overall_ stronger type-system, but where you don't have to worry about memory management. It has an amazing standard library, particularly around collection
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by balencpp 2y ago
I am genuinely curious too. .NET is a very mature, very performant runtime, and I think of F#, a beautiful, productive language, running on it a big pro. Perhaps things used to be different about/regarding Microsoft?
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by balencpp 2y ago
Their flagship models are available for free for everyone: aistudio.google.com. You have the option to enable "search grounding" to get the same thing as ChatGPT Search.
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by balencpp 2y ago
Offtopic: As an Iraqi Kurd, it's quite amazing (and surprising!) to find another Clojurian in Iraq. Also, the website looks and runs great!
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by balencpp 2y ago
When was the last time you tried C#? These days, it's as simple as getting dotnet and executing "dotnet new <template> -o MyNewProject" to make a new project. Then "dotnet run" or "dotnet watch". Als
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by balencpp 2y ago
There are many screen recorders that do not show a "giant banner", and even if there weren't, it's ~200 LoC to implement an efficient screen recorder for Windows that's hidden.
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by balencpp 2y ago
If you mean windows, it has been so many years since .NET has been able to run on many different platforms; and by now, most of the ecosystem supports majority of platforms too.. You get an amazing runtime with near native performance, acce
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by balencpp 2y ago
Why would you avoid .NET?
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by balencpp 3y ago
Some form of static typing != proper static typing. The 'static typing' from Python (and other previously dynamic languages) do not come close to Dart's; neither does Typescript's. All forms of null-safety aren't th
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by balencpp 3y ago
Besides the 'correctness' issues, all of the issues that blogpost mentioned were fixed back then ASAP. Most of it arise from the usage of @inbounds, which to be fair, the documentation clearly tells you its usage is unsafe. Is it
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by balencpp 3y ago
I think the implication is that @inbounds turns out of bound memory accesses into undefined, silent behavior, which can stay hidden and cause weird bugs later on. Out of bounds without using @inbounds leads to an exception indeed.
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by balencpp 3y ago
I think Elixir is doing quite well now. It's by no means mainstream, but it's also not in the same category as Clojure; it's on a slow,steady positive trajectory.
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by balencpp 3y ago
Yup. I think it's because Elixir has powerful LISP-like meta-programming facilities that it allows the seamless communication Rustler and Zigler provide. I haven't seen anything as good as Rustler for Python despite its popularity
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by balencpp 3y ago
"Our sponsors - Mythic Beasts ISP provides us two virtual servers with 400 TB/month of free bandwidth to help our users with maps downloads and updates." On their github README.md.
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by balencpp 3y ago
A lot of ugly,unreadable code has come into existence because of the need to twist it into NumPy calls. If you can replace these with good old for loops and achieve similar performance, then you've already won. Besides that, there are