cutler

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   by cutler 4y ago

   I'm really glad Perl was my first programming language back in 2000 and not Java or C#. The transition to Clojure was so much easier for me, not having done time in an OO prison. React succeeded in bucking the trend of OOP JS framework
2. 692.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   There should be a firing squad for such abuse of Javascript. We were warned about what Typescript would turn Javasript into.
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   by cutler 4y ago

   Solid.js may change all this.
4. 694.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   I find Hotwire/Turbo/Stimulus in Rails to be a perfect low-JS approach.
5. 695.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Yes, it's all about brand trust at this stage so best to just get hold of a native English speaker.
6. 696.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Because npm is the biggest repo in the history of computing and Deno makes it redundant. The people at Jetbrains knew about backwards compatibility when they created Kotlin. It's too late to just ditch npm.
7. 697.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   But Deno is incompatible with npm, no? Deal breaker.
8. 698.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Nubank is built exclusively in Clojure, proving large-scale projects can be developed with a Lisp. Same goes for Paul Graham and Viaweb.
9. 699.▲
   by cutler 4y ago

   Ruby is a more natural transition from Perl, especially if your usage of Perl is Moose-based.
10. 700.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Err ... mobility?
11. 701.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I think Perl lost to Ruby because of Rails. Whilst Perl had a couple of web frameworks - Catalyst, Mojolicious and Dancer - they never gained anywhere near the traction of Rails. I think this was because Perl's early success in the 90s
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    by cutler 4y ago

    I'll qualify that by some observations re the Ruby job situation in London which seems quite steady. Rails jobs in London in Indeed, for example have hovered around the 250 mark for many years now whilst Ruby jobs advertised are still
13. 703.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Agreed. It's VHS trumping Betamax all over again. Few things irk me more than Pythonistas crowing over their world dominance but if you look at the top 3 languages - Python, JS & Java - it's clear that language design counts f
14. 704.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    See also http://www.modulecounts.com .
15. 705.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    As if Docker wasn't enough overhead for a poor laptop. What next - a local virtual data centre for development? Honestly, the infrastructure layers we have to fight with to get shit done these days.
16. 706.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Examples? I don't recognise anything Perlish in Python. Ruby, yes, but not Python.
17. 707.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I think Ruby is heading in the same direction.
18. 708.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Great. Now all we need is one that breathes in CO2.
19. 709.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Rails interview question - who said "I don't do riddles"?
20. 710.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Does Vue offer relief from React's continuous accretion of hooks? The big point of confusion for me with React, as the number of hooks just keeps on increasing, is how do I hold in my head all the ways these hooks can interact with eac
21. 711.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    Looks like another attempt by the React team to whack-a-mole. Honestly, how many more use<Whatever> before we just admit that React a pile of *?
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    by cutler 4y ago

    Despite recent improvements including raw string literals it beggars belief how Java still requires regex metacharacters to be escaped. Until that's fixed Java is not an option for me.
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    by cutler 4y ago

    Gambling is exactly how crypto is being used. Crypto is nothing more than a big casino and to anyone who just lost their shirt I say that's what you get for trying so desperately to get something for nothing.
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    by cutler 4y ago

    If anyone is really serious about creating an alternative currency which is capable of revolutionising finance make it impossible to profit from speculation with it. As it stands cryptocurrency is just more of the same from the little man&#
25. 715.▲
    by cutler 4y ago

    I have one message for crypto-addicts - get an 'effing life instead of wasting it trying to get something for nothing. In other news the war in Ukraine rages on, millions of Ukrainians have lost everything and thousands of innocent liv
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    by cutler 4y ago

    If you go back to the 70s and 80s which, I'd argue, were peak decades for the sheer volume of music talent there was a social dimension which died with web 2.0 and that was shared music culture provided by radio and TV. In the UK progr
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    by cutler 4y ago

    I'm dumbfounded by this move by Apple as the iPod was one of the innovations which kicked Apple into the big league. There is also a large population of users who, for over a decade, have been using an iPod without a Mac or an iPhone a
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    by cutler 4y ago

    Can't wait. Finally an end to "Rails is slow".
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    by cutler 4y ago

    Maybe "western world" was an oversimplification but what I'm getting at is the contemplative, reclusive life is the privilege of a few. How can anyone retreat entirely, for example, if they have committed to a job and a famil
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    by cutler 4y ago

    I've been happily using Clojure for about 9 years and hardly ever have I needed to dip into any Java code. That's not to say I can't grok Java if I need to. Compared with the monstrosity that is Gradle deps.edn is a breath of