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by frou_dh 4y ago
elevaet already beat you to the 'Well Acktually' by 2 hours
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Deno is very nice for writing a script that uses a dependency, without the ceremony of setting up or generating a pseudo-"project". One file with your code in it.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Shared shell-scripts are only one side of the coin. The other is interactive use (incl. one's .bash_profile etc), where it doesn't matter what anyone else's system does or doesn't have installed.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Is this that video? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mr6RngfAeMY I remember obsessing over how great the MGS2 graphics were back in the day. Particularly the detail in the indoor scenes.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
It's not shitty, it's just not the best in the world. Same way everyone in a sport except the world champion isn't shitty.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Less space than Nomad (List), too. Very lame.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Third Edition just published. I think that's a sign that this is the way to go.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Similar to the 80-something Japanese woman who created an iPhone app relating to a doll festival, that was a big news story a couple of years ago.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I think something a lot of commenters are missing is that people who have worked like this for a long time are often massively resistant to using source control, even after having it explained to them. Even getting that process to stick pro
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Standard ML, but unfrozen and most of the "successorML" proposals integrated into the standard. And it has somehow sprung a large healthy library ecosystem. And the MLton toolchain has gained a REPL.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
That's exactly right. When I tried it, the Language Reference was great, and the stdlib documentation was a UX-challenged semi-broken webapp.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I don't think the breadth of the standard library necessarily affects startup time. You only pay the cost for a module when someone imports it, surely.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Python has a huge standard library full of useful general-purpose stuff. The motto "Batteries Included" might sound a bit boring at this point, but it's as true as ever.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
If a language has a string type then it has an edge over Zig.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
The thing that continues to feel strange to me is that Python is actually older than Linux.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I've always found it odd how they proactively delete previous editions of the EPUB book from the server. https://www.swift.org/documentation/#the-swift-programming-l... For example, the currently offered EPUB book
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I was happily surprised that the Lively Kernel project ( https://lively-next.org/ ) still seems to be being worked on some years later, at least according to GitHub activity: https://github.com/orgs/Live
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by frou_dh 4y ago
> I've found PD to be a bit... archaic in it's design and how it looks. Pd's creator was originally a mathematician and IIRC he said that the look he was going for is that you start off with a clean sheet of white paper an
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I think the point they are trying to make is that unless someone already has history as Mac/iOS app developer, they are in practice not even considering Swift when doing a project that targets Linux, regardless of how good the librarie
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by frou_dh 4y ago
> I'm not making a case to say it's objectively bad, just I find it inferior. That's good, because usually in this kind of debate there's an undercurrent of "I've been using X for decades (and so know it ins
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Apple don't seem to be particularly great at making new GUI applications these days. I suspect a lot of their old guard staff has finally moved on, and the institutional knowledge in that area has suffered.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Looks cool. Do you know if this ever escaped the lab and got used for anything interesting by people other than its creators?
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by frou_dh 4y ago
And a key thing is that both files can be committed to source control, not just one or the other.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Look at what the well-regarded pip-tools ( https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools ) does, for a disciplined approach to these requirements files. You don't necessarily need to adopt that tool, but can maybe take insp
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by frou_dh 4y ago
I was just playing around with Python 3.10 for the first time today. I made an algebraic/sum-type (dataclasses + typing.Union), then did some structural pattern matching on a value of that type (match statement), and Mypy could tell me
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by frou_dh 4y ago
So that's why ed(1) is the standard text editor. Anything more usable is a dangerous extravagance! :)
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by frou_dh 4y ago
That doesn't really refute the point that Carmack made. Namely that a lot of the supposed inherent difficulty in the endeavour of debugging is actually incidental from a general cultural attachment to crap old tooling.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
Don't know what to tell you. Two-thirds of the post are about subjective comfy syntax. And they did use the word familiar, which is why I quoted it.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
The key word in your post is "familiar". You want it to be familiar. There's no need to overstep that and make vague judgements of simplicity and complexity.
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by frou_dh 4y ago
A good example of this is the Max/MSP audiovisual environment, which, amongst other things, has both Lua 5.1 and an ancient JavaScript engine (JaegerMonkey from Firefox 4) embedded in it to this day.

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