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by baranul 11mo ago
Have to disagree. It depends on what you are doing. That the alternatives can be replacements, including the open source ones, is relative and should be looked at as a percentage. If you listed out all the things that Excel can do, we might
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by baranul 11mo ago
Might want to read up on Ponylang. GC'd FOSS language without the stop-the-world pauses, demonstrating that it's possible. Should also be pointed out, that there are a number of proprietary solutions that claim GC with no pauses.
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by baranul 11mo ago
Good point. However, similar offshoot languages of Golang, do have them. Those are Vlang (aka Sum Types) and Odin (aka Discriminated Unions). However and per your comment, only Vlang has the optional GC (used by default) and the flexible me
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by baranul 11mo ago
It's not just the domain, because a submission to youtube[1] was shadow banned or censored as well. This looks like undisclosed censorship against a particular language, which is why the question was asked. However, thanks for the resp
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by baranul 11mo ago
Mr. dang, that does not appear to be true (about restrictions), based on facts and reviewing profiles: 1) Hacker News gives the impression of specifically having restrictions against certain languages, that looks to result in bans, shadow b
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by baranul 11mo ago
Mr. dang, is there some other secret guidelines, stealth censorship, or are only certain languages allowed to be discussed? Post that are submitted are shadow banned or hidden for unknown reasons? Please explain. Examples: [1] https:/
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by baranul 11mo ago
It can be true, that a person needs a wake-up call, but it can also be true that the person(s) doing the "shocking" are sadistic, abusive, or psychopaths.
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by baranul 11mo ago
The arguments against EVs in the U.S. are both weird and funny. Meanwhile, many other countries have figured out that promoting the switch from ICE to EVs, is the better option for the future of humanity. Not to mention, China will use Amer
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by baranul 11mo ago
I think the article has a good point about the extent that customers will tolerate being abused by Microsoft. It's way too obvious that Microsoft has taken the situation for granted, but things can shift, like in the way there are almo
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by baranul 11mo ago
This is indeed the virtue signaling trap. It then calls into question of if such public figures or organizations are really as ethical, as they claim to be or if the reason given is actually valid. Especially, upon further scrutiny, if that
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by baranul 11mo ago
This situation has a strong scam smell. Zig has many thousands of open issues on GitHub (nearly 3,500 issues) that appears ripe to get mostly ignored, closed without resolution, or plain disappear from public view. As pointed out, it is cor
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by baranul 11mo ago
This is a decent example of not buying, getting pulled, or being forced into any corporate pushed hype or eliminating one's options. They re-evaluated and looked at what programming language was best for their situation, which was remo
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The UK Has It Wrong on Digital ID. Here's Why(eff.org)
4 points by baranul 11mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 11mo ago
I'm surprised that Crystal[1][2], a heavily inspired by Ruby compiled language, was not mentioned in all of this. Though it has more of an issue than Elixir, where various people can feel it has not gained enough traction[3][4] (accord
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by baranul 11mo ago
> Honestly, rust is slightly more readable than obfuscated perl. > Rust is the kind of language that would push me to write a new language that isn't rust. It's wild how draconian and forced the use of Rust has become. It&#x
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I Tried Switching to Linux for 157 Days by Basically Homeless [video](youtube.com)
2 points by baranul 11mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 11mo ago
A lot of things that people wanted in Golang (or in a C alternative), are in the newer language, Vlang[1][2]. Sum types, option/result types, enums, no variable shadowing, flexible memory management (GC can be turned off and stdlib doe
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by baranul 11mo ago
Excellent! People need to think more deeply about what various laws and technologies are leading us to.
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by baranul 11mo ago
The combination of hardware requirements and AI pushing by Microsoft is succeeding in finally making "Year of the Linux Desktop" a reality. Continual attempts at forcing AI on users, that don't want it, is only going to help
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by baranul 11mo ago
Sadly, this appears to be true. For whatever strange reasons, Rust (and Zig) are glazed and hyped beyond any sense and way out of proportion to their language rankings (see TIOBE)[1]. Rust is not even in the TIOBE top 10. Zig is barely in t
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by baranul 11mo ago
Zig has previously been involved in all kinds of drama. Including involving money, battles among developers, attempts to split/fork the language, and self-pushed conflicts with other programming languages. This is just the latest, in t
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by baranul 11mo ago
It's not a big jump to go from open-source equivalents of the close source products. The concept and what one wants to accomplish is the same. Many of these companies have certification programs, if the point is to be specific and narr
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by baranul 11mo ago
Good points. Funding the open-source equivalents, even at a fraction of what they are spending on close-source, would have circumvented the problem of being "trapped" in the first place. Even more, the universities would be able t
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by baranul 11mo ago
The statement is likely to be justification propaganda from those companies that have focused on trucks and SUVs. There is still a car market in the U.S., and for that matter, in South America and Canada. Something else that is not being to
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I Hate Language "Benchmarks" by GingerBill [video](youtube.com)
1 points by baranul 11mo ago|0 comments
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by baranul 11mo ago
> "It works better for totalitarian regimes" is an argument for not doing it. The problem is that authoritarianism has been allowed to become attractive to many politicians, because they are allowed to be bought by corporate mo
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by baranul 11mo ago
Think it's a matter of if a person is limiting themselves to an evangelistic echo chamber. If one confined themselves to only HN, likely to get the impression from the enthusiastic fans of Rust and Zig, that they ranked #1 and #2, wher
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by baranul 11mo ago
That's not the case globally[1]. And there is a lot of oil money causing confusion. But, regardless of what the true situation is, continually burning fossil fuels with reckless abandon, is not the way forward for humanity. [1]: https
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by baranul 1y ago
It has long been very obvious that the EV market was only going to grow. They have no one to blame, but themselves, to be stuck watching China become dominate. And they still have a long way to catch up, because the EV charging station netw
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by baranul 1y ago
Yes, that's truly sad that he passed. It is fortunate that he left that open-source project, where others can pick up the torch. As the forks continue, it becomes a small tribute to him.

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