benstigsen

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   by benstigsen 1y ago

   I can recommend that people check out Lune [1], it's a Luau runtime which includes a small but nice standard library. It's very easy to create something like a webserver in it. [2] [1]: https://lune-org.github.io/d
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   by benstigsen 1y ago

   I am building a webserver using Luau[1] and Lune[2], which will be used to host my own website. I haven't been this excited in a long time, when it comes to trying out a new programming language. Luau seems to make Lua _perfect_ (excep
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   by benstigsen 1y ago

   I disagree. Having been a previous V developer contributing to the language (though arguably very little), the issues of missed deadlines, fake it till you make it and more seems completely valid. If you join the Discord and search for &quo
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   by benstigsen 1y ago

   I created something like this relatively recently. The downside is of course that it requires JavaScript. https://github.com/benstigsen/include.js
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   by benstigsen 2y ago

   I noted this on my website, some time ago [1]: > Making use of sql.DB from multiple goroutines is safe, since Go manages its own internal mutex. Then I quote the database/sql documentation [2]: > DB is a database handle represent
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   by benstigsen 2y ago

   Not daily, but I remember reading quite a bunch about plan9 on the HundredRabbits website. That's how I was introduced to the OS. Found a minor mention of it on the Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org/web/20221
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   by benstigsen 3y ago

   Ah that is true. It does make us depend less on JavaScript, although not to the degree I thought when linking to it. Thank you for correcting me.
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   by benstigsen 3y ago

   I joined Vlang GitHub organisation after I was invited. I was aware of the "V for Vaporware" articles [1] that already existed, but at that point they were more than a year old, so things had probably changed. It didn't take
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   by benstigsen 3y ago

   It definitely depends on the technology, but for a lot of sites JavaScript simply isn't necessary. A lot of what could be static sites use JavaScript. CSS may be tricky to some (I'm still lost with flexbox), but what I've fou