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by c_crank 3y ago
Trying to write Objects in Python is already bad enough, I can't imagine trying to force any other kind of complex crap through that language. If you want something that isn't Python, your best bet is not using Python.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Explaining how to use a Javascript Promise is simple. Explaining how to write idiomatic pure code using Monads is hard, and impractical in most cases, despite what FP purists will tell you.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Clojure is opinionated against using all the potential features of Lisp.
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by c_crank 3y ago
There are these things called 'radios'...
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by c_crank 3y ago
A direct correlation between intelligence and persuasive ability has never been demonstrated.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Duplicates aren't the main cause of dependency hell in Node.js, although they certainly don't help matters. Other systems languages have kept simple, C-like syntax without the associated error rates. Removing a lot of implicit cas
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by c_crank 3y ago
I call it marketing, but I agree that it developed naturally. But I think it goes much further in excess than the typical emacs vs vim brinksmanship.
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by c_crank 3y ago
The token system used instead of passwords now was horribly explained. I had to look at several online resources to figure out how to actually use it. I've noticed that the system seems to repeatedly throttle me where it never did befo
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by c_crank 3y ago
And there are various ways of doing nothing that are still judged for being childish or not. I already mentioned the differences in fiction.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I can try and explain it. The definition is not going to rely on any kind of hard values or studies, because it is a soft cultural term used for name calling. Passions that are seen as childish usually tend to lack any sort of practical uti
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by c_crank 3y ago
On Windows, what other options do you really have?
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by c_crank 3y ago
It came from people organically reacting to the flood of juvenile comic book stories put out in the 50s. Nothing to do with "the church" at all.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I didn't invent the conception of comic books and action figures as childish. It's very much worth considering why it exists and where it came from.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I should have clarified that I meant a universal standard. COBOL was meant to create a common language across business and government, while Ada was meant to just consolidate a language across DoD projects. Ada is a much better language tha
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by c_crank 3y ago
DoD software and the commercial / FOSS world rarely intersect. The last time the government tried to set a computing language standard, we got COBOL, so it's probably for the better such a thing isn't tried again. The marketi
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by c_crank 3y ago
Ada never had the same level of marketing power towards engineers that Mozilla came up with. GNAT still came out well before Rust did.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Bounding the complexity is desirable for a system that should never fail due to software errors.
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by c_crank 3y ago
This would be an argument in favor of using a GC'ed language, because that would reduce those bugs by 99.9%.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Life without action figures and comic books isn't supposed to be suffering, it's supposed to be a realization that such things are childish for a reason. Adults deal with responsibility, and have their own joys that children can&#
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by c_crank 3y ago
A whole laundry list of languages have stricter typing than C, garbage collected or not.
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by c_crank 3y ago
Most software that handles actual human lives on the line is not written in plain C. Writing 'security critical' software in C is a trade off - many people are willing to accept extra defects in return for the benefits of the C AB
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by c_crank 3y ago
The praise of Go didn't end with it being just readable, but also 'brutally pragmatic' and all that. If Googlers think that Rust code is just as readable as Go, even though Rust obviously makes tradeoffs against readability f
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by c_crank 3y ago
Yeah, if you really wanted to be extra super secure, you can always rewrite it in Java or something.
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by c_crank 3y ago
I've gotten the most enjoyment out of side projects when I know that I'm making them for close friends first, and any extra popularity is just a bonus.
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by c_crank 3y ago
A job for Common Lisp!
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by c_crank 3y ago
I wouldn't trust Googlers as a measure of any sort of quality, given their love of Go. C code relying on tons of macros will be harder to read then C code that delegates preprocessing to another language. Rust code that leans heavily i
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by c_crank 3y ago
Only six entries mention overflows, only half of those involve the heap.
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by c_crank 3y ago
It's nice when you can rely on the rich to provide patronage for high quality art. But one could not expect this from the current rich.
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by c_crank 3y ago
If I had the kind of brain to grok vector transformations, I'd build my own game engine. But I don't, so I decide to write stories on the side instead. The guys who can do that stuff are wizards
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by c_crank 3y ago
GitHub's gotten so much worse since Microsoft bought it. The drop in quality compared to when I used it in school is remarkable.

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