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by cutler 4y ago
Since the "O" in "ORM" stands for "Object" why are you surprised that a functional language like Clojure doesn't provide an ORM?
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by cutler 4y ago
He certainly looks and sounds older. Rich seemed to ride the wave of Clojure's early success with a succession of brilliant presentations. Then .... nothing.
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by cutler 4y ago
If you're coming to Kit from Luminus make sure you understand Kit's use of Integrant which involves passing `query-fn` down from the route to every function which accesses SQL. It was a deal-breaker for me.
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by cutler 4y ago
Try Hy ( https://hylang.org ). Best of both worlds if Python floats your boat.
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by cutler 4y ago
Maybe grafting async onto a single threaded dynamic language just isn't such a good idea in the first place.
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by cutler 4y ago
Yes, at 62 I find myself obsessing over my days at university collecting old texts on eBay and making playlists of old tunes. Nostalgia can take over your life but it does exercise your memory.
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by cutler 4y ago
"classless css lib" ??
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by cutler 4y ago
What on earth does this tangled mess "simplify"? I've been at it with web dev for over 20 years and I was left scratching my head. The trouble with going down the JS rabbit hole is that you lose perspective on simplicity. **d
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by cutler 4y ago
When Perl was popular (late 90s/early 2000s) it had the best performance of any interpreted language especially with regular expressions and mod_perl. If you're comparing Perl with Java or C++ that's apples to oranges.
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by cutler 4y ago
PHP's big advantage over Node is that it comes with batteries included. Ok, those batteries could have been namespaced better but JS and Node suck more than any language because you have to import literally everything to get anything d
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by cutler 4y ago
Java "beautifully designed"? Java 19 still can't parse a regex properly, ie. without having to escape metacharacters. Which other commonly-used language has such a lousy regex implementation?
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by cutler 4y ago
s/peace/oppression/
463.
by cutler 4y ago
How so? I see orders of magnitude more webdev jobs on Indeed.com than iOS jobs.
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by cutler 4y ago
Another to reason, if one was needed, to leave iOS development well alone if you value your time.
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by cutler 4y ago
So that's it for Elixir then.
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by cutler 4y ago
The big one for me is the death of publicly funded education here in the UK. Before Thatcher's cuts in the mid 80s grants covered the total cost unless you had wealthy parents. Around the same time the Fair Rent Act was abolished. I da
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by cutler 4y ago
Honestly, to an outsider Docker sure sounds like a world of pain.
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by cutler 4y ago
Excuse my ignorance but isn't the whole point of SQLite that it's embedded, not clint-server?
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by cutler 4y ago
With due respect to the tireless efforts of the TruffleRuby team TruffleRuby always seemed fated to be forever almost ready. I first came across it in 2013, I think it was, but there was always a not-quite-ready factor. If I remember the sh
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by cutler 4y ago
I'm with you on this as I get older. 'Been fascinated with Clojure for years but now sick of being out in the cold/on the fringe as it hasn't really converted into anything which brings home the bacon so I've turned
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by cutler 4y ago
I paid £250 for 5th generation iPod Touch in 2013. SONY's prices are way higher.
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by cutler 4y ago
TLDR - Emacs sucks.
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by cutler 4y ago
I've found VS Code's Tailwind intellisense to be unreliable. Half the time it just doesn't generate anything.
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by cutler 4y ago
Most PHP code I've seen is orders of magnitude more verbose than the Perl equivalent. Modern PHP is just pseudo-Java.
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by cutler 4y ago
I used Perl's CGI::Application to transform an Excel spreadsheet of teachers, used for fielding telephone enquiries, into a PostgreSQL-backed web service used by 33 household brands. Everything ran on Apache CGI without a hitch for 15
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by cutler 4y ago
5 lines in PHP, 70 in Perl? You are joking, surely?
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by cutler 4y ago
So not much to shout about given that Ruby's memory usage isn't great to begin with?
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by cutler 4y ago
For me the continuity with Perl was the main attraction.
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by cutler 4y ago
Do these YJIT improvements come at the cost of significantly increased memory usage?
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by cutler 4y ago
Sadly, I don't share your optimism. If the current state of JS isn't proof enough that it is doomed to be forever reinventing itself I don't know what is. Layer upon layer is a recipe for disaster which soon becomes apparent

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