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by frou_dh 3y ago
There are new programmers coming of age every day, so the proportion that even thinks about Objective-C at all (never mind advocates it) is going down down down.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
In practical terms, the big sin is using them in the web documentation of languages and libraries (which is public reference material and should reflect the reality of the syntax). All this debate about individuals and their text editor set
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by frou_dh 3y ago
If you're looking for things to be OUTRAGED about then you'll find them.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Raku seems very cool - absolutely stuffed with gems like this to learn.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Tangential, but I've always found Mustache's tagline "logic-less templates" confusing - what they mean is that the template language doesn't have control flow. Logic is not a synonym of control flow in my mind.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Rosetta Code has a page on how to draw the 'fractal' fern leaf in dozens of different programming languages, probably including your favourite: https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Barnsley_fern
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Pharo is anything but lean, so I don't think their relative merits have changed at all.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
I would characterise the "losing their minds all day about Final Cut Pro on iPad" that went on as... moaning about subscription pricing. So not positive either.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Isn't that less about Flash the browser plugin and more about Flash the application/IDE? If there were a fantastic accessible authoring experience for Canvas/SVG content then it could be much like the glory days of Flash.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Check this out: https://github.com/search?q=%22simple+yet+powerful%22 Biggest clichéd phrase out there in marketing to developers.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Probably code for the servers of a big-ish commercial online game. I haven't logged on and played that game myself for like a decade. Next up would be random ETL scheduled processes in back-offices.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Don't switch if you're not actually interested in proactively learning the many nuances of the Mac GUI/Application paradigm, and will instead just complain bitterly that things aren't structured identically to Windows or
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by frou_dh 3y ago
How's it namespace pollution? It won't cause any clashes in either std or the user's code. It's just a few directories moving slightly higher up in a directory structure (which as an aside, is even deeper than you might
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by frou_dh 3y ago
What's stopping you sticking with Deno CLI, using it for free forever, and completely ignoring anything related to Deno Deploy? In this relationship of 3 years and counting, they are the positive contributor because they give you somet
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by frou_dh 3y ago
If they provide a compelling product offering, and the people understand what's available where, and choose to use it, then I guess that can be called vendor lock-in. But it's hardly nefarious.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
The equivalent of Next.js would be Deno + their "Fresh" web framework. https://fresh.deno.dev/ My impression of Fresh is that it's neat technology but basically a barebones MVP at this stage. They haven'
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by frou_dh 3y ago
They need this because Deno Deploy (their Edge platform) is not a normal/traditional deployment target. If Deno were nothing but "Deno CLI" (the equivalent of the 'node' executable, that runs as a typical server pro
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by frou_dh 3y ago
The standard library is separate from the Deno runtime and is currently pre-1.0 (0.185.0). As the blog post touches on, upgrading Deno itself does not force you onto the latest version of the stdlib. You will need to change the import URLs
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Much like there is a good strategy for eBay auctions (snipe them in the last 5 seconds), the good strategy for Udemy is to star all courses that look interesting and then later buy them when they inevitably have deep discounts.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
> But he then decided to conflate in “comprehensible” which it turns out is very much a matter of aesthetics. Did he? I seem to remember a quip in one of the presentations about German not being comprehensible to him being his own proble
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by frou_dh 3y ago
If that's the case then all the people running around praising the ""simplicity"" of golang got the wrong end of the stick completely from Rich's classic presentations.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Woah, you have the receipts! My PC hardware enthusiast phase is behind me, but I definitely agree with you that there was/is a weird sickly "AMD defence force" out there. I think it's just another manifestation of people
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by frou_dh 3y ago
Old days like 1st-gen Ryzen in 2017? The launch chips were defective. I confirmed it with my own and had to get a new one. > AMD has not provided an official public explanation of the fundamental problem, but [...] it appears to affect R
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by frou_dh 3y ago
They also made a fantastic auto-formatter for Erlang code https://github.com/WhatsApp/erlfmt so evidently they have resources cleared for doing generally useful Erlang stuff.
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by frou_dh 3y ago
How does that work with Fresh? Just not using its built-in "Islands" machinery at all? Or smuggling stuff in that as far as Fresh is concerned are more orthodox React components?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Knowing the virtually dead Standard ML is a curse when it comes to appreciating the aesthetics of OCaml. The two languages have similar syntax, but in just about every way they differ, OCaml syntax took the ugly road :(
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Evidently Lerdorf wants to be perceived as aloof and 2school4skool. The quotes sound rather performative.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Don't conflate split keyboards with the silly trend of having a low number of keys so that it looks kawaii in photos.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
The typical industry dev has never heard of them, never mind used them.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It's been my experience that not much satisfying happens on Microsoft web-based support forums anyway.

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