cutler

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1. 541.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Seconded. All the benefits of Clojurescript and React's core proposition without any of the classes/hooks madness.
2. 542.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   I don't know why Clojurescript's Reagent/re-frame aren't more popular given that they completely obviate the need for hooks or classes.
3. 543.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Add another 1 to your army. We all know how Typelevel Scala ended.
4. 544.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Then you ain't drinkin' the coffee.
5. 545.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Why stop there? Why not go the whole way and teach CS in Javascript? Python's tentacles of mediocrity know no bounds. It's as if the whole teaching profession is sleepwalking towards conformity.
6. 546.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Then you're going to need something like Turbo/Stimulus as in Rails. I don't know of any Java implementation.
7. 547.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Sweeping generalisation or what?
8. 548.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Pre-WordPress.
9. 549.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Adobe killed Fireworks hoping their competitor ImageReady would prevail.
10. 550.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Like Clojure with VS Code or Cursive/IntelliJ, you mean? NuBank also seem to be doing OK with Clojure.
11. 551.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Jetpack Compose (Android)
12. 552.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Types also complect, as Rich Hickey points out. Data is just data. When you constrain it with types you lose something. Witness the pain of making JSON fit the type system in a lot of statically typed languages.
13. 553.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Wasn't it specifically garbage collection that he contributed?
14. 554.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Agreed. Smalltalk is Smalltalk and corporate OOP(Java/C#) is what it is. Neither is superior or more pure.
15. 555.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    What's the biggest bottleneck?
16. 556.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I've never bought this one. Surely a rewrite in Java/Kotlin or C# would save you a fortune in the long run.
17. 557.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Gradle is the default for Kotlin projects.
18. 558.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    No, PHP since 5.3 is just pseudo Java.
19. 559.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I consider 3 books essential reading for system administration. "UNIX and Linux System Administration Handbook" by Nemeth & Snyder, "Essential System Administration" by Aeleen Frisch and "TCP/IP Guide"
20. 560.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Don't forget Matt's Script Archive ( http://www.scriptarchive.com ).
21. 561.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Sure, if you're a fan of Java verbosity. Since PHP 5.3 I don't know why Zend didn't just re-brand PHP as Java Lite. I also don't get why Rasmus allowed the Zend team to get away with it since at heart he's a procedu
22. 562.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I think this is where Ruby's reputation for being slow is a bit misleading. Perl is faster because it doesn't have OOP baked-in. Pre-load Moose and Perl's performance isn't that different than Ruby's.
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    by cutler 4y ago

    Don't worry. The Perl community, which I love BTW, has bee fighting over Moose, Mouse, Moo and the inclusion of a Meta Object Protocol in the core since the mid-2000s which, I would argue is partly responsible for its decline. So for P
24. 564.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    That would be "Programming Perl" by Larry Wall. For me too it was the only programming book of that size I was compelled to read cover to cover. Larry is a great writer but maybe that's to be expected from a linguist. If Pyth
25. 565.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    The thing is back in the day 35,000 modules on CPAN was a big deal but if you look at https://modulecounts.com that's since been dwarfed by Python/PyPI (398,000), Ruby/Rubygems (173,000), PHP/Packagist (351,0
26. 566.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Anyone remember smart match? Oh dear - a real low point for Perl.
27. 567.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    To be fair to Python subprocess is not simply a substitute for backticks in Perl or Ruby. It's supposed to protect you from some of the more obscure problems which can happen with shell expansion.
28. 568.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I find Mark Lutz's writing style extremely tedious, having forced myself to wade through "Learning Python".
29. 569.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Perl enabled me to take a business-owner's disorganised national spreadsheet of teachers, locations and contact details and turn it into a web application, freeing him from fielding phone calls all day and boosting conversions over a p
30. 570.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I think with languages like Perl, Ruby and Python you just need a static, compiled language to migrate to at a certain scale, preferably with similar features. Kotlin and Scala seem to be currently the best options for Ruby, Python and OO P