dalailambda

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by dalailambda 10y ago
I'm pretty sure the problem is Go's use of segmented stacks and runtime, which makes it hard to properly interface with C efficiently.
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by dalailambda 10y ago
But it has really slow iteration time, due to pointer indirection and cache misses.
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by dalailambda 10y ago
That's interesting. The cgo overhead was the only thing holding me back from considering it for games, since I didn't want to write a lot of C wrappers around the C libraries I want to use just to have them be more efficient, whic
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by dalailambda 10y ago
If you want minimal you could always use something like glfast https://github.com/procedural/glFast
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by dalailambda 10y ago
How do you find the cgo overhead? Specifically with something like OpenGL, it seems like it would be a big pain point for rendering.
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by dalailambda 10y ago
In my experience Glide is the closest to a modern package manager for Go.
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by dalailambda 10y ago
For an example of a language written in Go(besides Go), there's always https://github.com/ark-lang/ark
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by dalailambda 10y ago
In line with your JSON bullet point, I think this project should adopt a smaller/binary data transfer format. Having something that's human readable isn't of that much value in this case, where maximising speed seems to be th
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by dalailambda 11y ago
It could make sense if they want developers to start creating Linux focused apps, and then over time deprecate the win32 parts.
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by dalailambda 11y ago
While it's important to not overload C with features, not adding features to it because C++ already has it isn't very practical.
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by dalailambda 11y ago
While some might claim this goes against the spirit of C, I think minor support for generics(enough to implement a type safe dynamic array e.g. vector) would be really useful. And if this did monomorphisation, then performance would still b
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by dalailambda 11y ago
From a glance what makes this appealing to me is the fact that there's less magic than with Meteor, which means I can use my own build process, and I can use any compile to js language.
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by dalailambda 11y ago
While I understand the argument the author is making, I think it's important to consider that while a mild focus on performance could only benefit your code a little, applied across your entire stack, the performance benefits start to
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by dalailambda 11y ago
On the other hand, how many languages use libraries that are written in C? Especially in the higher level scripting language ecosystems(JS, Python, Lua) a lot of libraries interface with C/C++ libraries. If instead they used Rust, woul
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by dalailambda 11y ago
I feel like this is a bad argument to be making. If a language's "level of suck" were based on its ability to write operating systems, then the massive boost in programmer productivity we see today from languages which sought
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by dalailambda 11y ago
In a way it's verbose, but less so on a syntax level. There's no need to deal with interfaces, classes, or exceptions. The boilerplate code you write tends to serve a practical purpose, as opposed to a syntactical one. Sure you ha
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by dalailambda 11y ago
The thing I like C for is the simplicity. Writing C after working in a very verbose language for a while is refreshing. That said, my few wishes for a C replacement would be generics, methods, and namespacing. The last two are to avoid funk
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Mantra: Application Architecture for Meteor(voice.kadira.io)
2 points by dalailambda 11y ago|0 comments
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by dalailambda 11y ago
I can see this being useful in combination with Piston[1] to achieve scripting for game engines, in the same way Lua is normally used. Rust as a core for a game engine seems like a really great idea, considering the speed and safety benefit
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React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10(github.com)
207 points by dalailambda 11y ago|73 comments
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React Desktop – React UI Components for OS X El Capitan and Windows 10(github.com)
6 points by dalailambda 11y ago|3 comments