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by blindseer 5y ago
I wish Cython was a more popular option than choosing Julia or Go. Cython is great and you can get some real performance out of it. The only drawback is that a Cython module still loads the CPython interpreter, so I personally prefer writin
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by blindseer 5y ago
Have people here used Chewy? I’m kind of amazed at their customer service. It’s SO good. You can reach a person via phone or chat, they are all technically savvy and extremely helpful. And fast. I’ve never spent more than a few minutes on t
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by blindseer 5y ago
I'm not a systems level programmer but I personally super appreciate this kind of dialog and communication about the flaws in the programming language from prominent members in the community. I've seen it a lot more in Rust (and C
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by blindseer 5y ago
If you are interested in using fzf in neovim, check out this project: https://github.com/ibhagwan/fzf-lua .
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by blindseer 5y ago
On a unrelated note, I can't believe someone using Chrome is surprised by something like this. If I were using Chrome and signed into my google account from there, I'd assume all bets were off.
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by blindseer 5y ago
lol no thanks. Congrats to all the engineers that have worked on this and getting this out the door, but I don't think anyone should use or recommend these Google services, especially when they have been SO inconsistent about the life,
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It's Time to Come Clean – Brandon Sanderson(youtube.com)
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by blindseer 5y ago
I'm not well versed in React so only clicked into this article out of mild curiosity. If anyone is interested in discussing the non-technical aspects of this submission, please continue reading this comment :) What do people think of t
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githubstatus.com vs. downdetector.com/status/github
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by blindseer 5y ago
I love the idea of using underscore to represent partial currying. Somewhat related, here's a similar PR for native support of this feature in Julia: https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/24990 . In my
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A collection of harmless prank / virus examples using the Windows API(github.com)
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by blindseer 5y ago
That uses keyword arguments though which is bad for performance, which is the main reason I'd like to use immutable structs.
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by blindseer 5y ago
I think you mean you can do `foo(x, y, z)` instead of `M.foo(x, y, z)`. You cannot do `x.foo(y, z)` instead of `foo(x, y, z)`, a feature I sorely miss in Julia. Nim is awesome in this regard. There are some functions / paradigms that a
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by blindseer 5y ago
I didn't read every testimonial but I read a lot, and I have to say a lot of it resonated with me and reminded me of when I first came across Julia. Congrats on the 10 year journey, and I hope for more great progress in the future.
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by blindseer 5y ago
fwiw, I started using Vue 3 recently for a project and the new composition API + new script setup feature makes Vue 3 comparable to Svelte in a lot of ways in terms of lines of code. Script setup definitely reduces boilerplate and once I wa
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by blindseer 5y ago
I agree with this. If you look at the threads on discourse, you'll see a lot of comments on discussions where someone claims Julia isn't fast. I wish there were more meaningful comparisons posted in a more objective manner. I&#x27
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by blindseer 5y ago
Ugh. I'm firmly of the opinion that if anyone uses a sane programming language first, they'll absolutely do anything they can to avoid C++. Corollary being, 1) if C++ is your first language, you'll end up learning all these r
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by blindseer 5y ago
Thanks for the reply Jakob. I agree with what you are saying. When JET.jl works it is great. But for large projects it didn't even return when I tried it. I must have waited at least half an hour once. VSCode seems like it is offically
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by blindseer 5y ago
Thank you. I just did. I’m a tad new to commenting on HN :-)
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by blindseer 5y ago
I learnt the hard way that you can architect Julia apps the wrong way. I think my biggest frustration is how easy it is to make mistakes that cause type unstable code.
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by blindseer 5y ago
I agree with you. Julia has gotten better but it’s still way slower than Python or R. And the workflow of running tests just make it painful. I think I’m familiar enough with Julia and I can write code and it’ll likely just work, but I’m no
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by blindseer 5y ago
We do but tests still take a really long time to run. Sometimes changes are so local, and running compiling and running few hundred tests to check that a 50 line patch works is debilitating.
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by blindseer 5y ago
I’ll first say that this is my opinion, and that I don’t have good suggestions for how Julia as a language should implement this, just that it should: * Better language level support for testing * Better language level support for docstring
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by blindseer 5y ago
I don't have a link to the project unfortunately, it was really haphazardly put together (personal access tokens, other people's identifying information etc, have been committed to the repo), and I don't have the time to clea
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by blindseer 5y ago
I used Genie with PackageCompiler on AWS to host build a wedding website for some friends (features included personalized invites + custom photo uploads with filters directly to the bride and groom + live mini games during the wedding). The
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by blindseer 5y ago
I have to say that I love vim, and super respect Bram and all the other contributors for everything that they have done for vim. There just happens to be some technical choices in vim that I don't agree with / don't find appe
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by blindseer 5y ago
TJ (one of neovim's core devs) has already started work on that: https://github.com/tjdevries/vim9jit Their twitch streams where they work on this are a lot of fun too.
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by blindseer 5y ago
My understanding is that neovim devs would like to see a lua interface in vim, but right now there's a lot of functions in neovim's lua interface that are not available in vim's lua interface. But for the stuff that is availa
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by blindseer 5y ago
You are right, my apologies. Reading through this https://vimhelp.org/vim9.txt.html again, it appears that you can intermix vimscript and vim9script.
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by blindseer 5y ago
vim9script was most definitely written way after lua was integrated into neovim, and well well after lua was popular as an embedded programming language choice. While it is plausible that the idea for vim9script was conceived without him kn

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