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by cutler 5y ago
JS in Spring Lotus blossoms Java clouds rain All is lost
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by cutler 5y ago
Clojurescript's core.async is a game changer.
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by cutler 5y ago
R.I.P JScript.
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by cutler 5y ago
6) fontconfig
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by cutler 5y ago
Audio Hijack to the rescue.
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by cutler 5y ago
I remember the early days of CSS when Jeffrey Zeldman and Eric Meyer were pushing the boundaries of what IE would allow and web standards kicked and screamed their way into existence. Anyone remember CSS Zen Garden? The thing is, though, yo
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by cutler 5y ago
If CSS was not a hack upon a hack I'd be with you but going back to the early 2000s I must have wasted weeks trying to debug obscure CSS corner cases. Yes, we now have flexbox and css grid to replace CSS-P but that has to work with all
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by cutler 5y ago
Are you saying he didn't know JS or just Webpack? If the latter there's no shame in that considering he knew a better alternative, ie. Vite. That's like chiding someone for not knowing jQuery when they're familiar with W
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by cutler 5y ago
In the early 2000s there was a site usability movement centred around the work of Jakob Nielsen and http://useit.com . Fortune 500s were paying him huge sums to have extraneous crap removed from their home pages and just for a wh
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by cutler 5y ago
For a shell substitute, though, Ruby and Perl are better due to their enhanced support for one-liners. Matz was smart enough to retain Perl's virtues when he created Ruby. Sadly Python has taken over in the same way that VHS killed-off
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by cutler 5y ago
For Clojure lovers there's Overtone ( https://github.com/overtone/overtone ), also created by Sam Aaron. Not sure if it's still maintained, however.
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by cutler 5y ago
PowerShell is a verbose monstrosity that could only have been produced by a corporation like Microsoft and which appeals to those who pray at the altar of OOP. There, I've said it. Please leave shell scripting nice and imperative/
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by cutler 5y ago
If you like Clojure there's babashka.
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by cutler 5y ago
Which idea exactly was good? PowerShell, to me, is just a typical Microsoft product full of bloat and redundancy. Microsoft couldn't produce a concise language if their existence depended on it.
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by cutler 5y ago
So long as your shell language isn't object-oriented. We don't want PowerShell on UNIX.
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by cutler 5y ago
Looking at the site's example: https://lemonadejs.net/v1/examples/hangman ... I see a lot of ugly ES5 code where everything is prefixed with self. How is this progress?
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by cutler 5y ago
Markus was shrewd enough to see how the business was changing in terms of the cost of providing a free service and jumped ship accordingly. At least that's how I read it.
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by cutler 5y ago
I was wondering too, particularly whether most MVPs and early stage startups are web apps (React, Vue etc.) delaying native mobile versions.
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by cutler 5y ago
Whilst I agree with you that Elixir is an also-ran Tiobe is the worst yardstick by which to measure a programming language. I can never understand why anyone takes it seriously.
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by cutler 5y ago
Depends what you're comparing. Barebones Node with few dependencies is more like a Rack application. Rails is the other end of the spectrum.
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by cutler 5y ago
Agreed. Clojure is the most productive language I've ever used.
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by cutler 5y ago
I think learning functional programming is harder with a statically-typed language as there's so much more to learn which revolves solely around the type system. I would recommend anyone new to FP to try Clojure first. No mon[a|oi]ds n
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by cutler 5y ago
I think esbuild would have made webpack redundant soon if it hadn't already been removed.
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by cutler 5y ago
Just saying that's where the real stats are regarding programming language adoption.
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by cutler 5y ago
No. Remember the HN echo chamber is not the real world. Search Indeed.com if you want to face the music regarding a programming language's adoption.
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by cutler 5y ago
Whatever new spin Apple try to add to the original gaffe the fact still remains that they are opening the door on everyone's iPhone to some kind of scanning. That in itself is the problem, not whatever form that scanning may take. From
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by cutler 5y ago
Whatever happens to Perl and Larry Wall they will always have a place in my heart. In many ways Larry was the ultimate hacker's hacker and I think programming culture was a little more colourful back in the 90s and early 2000s when Per
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by cutler 5y ago
The download channels still have this tagged as beta.
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by cutler 5y ago
Personally I think Rails + Hotwire nailed this. I believe there's also a Django port of Stimulus but maybe not Hotwire.
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by cutler 5y ago
Exactly. I want it for my Facebook-infested Samsung Galaxy A20 but I guess I'm out of luck.

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