george_____t

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by george_____t 5mo ago
> I don't understand why Zig's `Io` is a "monad". I don't see how it's true in any meaningful sense. It seems about the same as stating that any function is an example of the reader monad. The whole point of
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Pandoc in the browser(pandoc.org)
4 points by george_____t 8mo ago|1 comments
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by george_____t 8mo ago
Possible thanks to GHC's new WebAssembly backend.
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by george_____t 9mo ago
Just to add some context, Strudel is TidalCycles ported from Haskell to JS. IMO, Haskell is a much nicer language for this stuff. Hopefully, now that GHC can output WebAssembly, someone can build a web-based music programming environment ar
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by george_____t 3y ago
> even python might be too far from the CPU to be a good introduction to computing That depends on what one considers to be the best way to introduce computing. I personally think kids are a lot less likely to be engaged by a bottom-up a
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by george_____t 3y ago
> AIUI, in this case, the major issue is that it is very tempting to try to impose a constraint that all intermediate states the code passes through are semantically valid. However while superficially appealing this turns out to be a cri
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by george_____t 3y ago
It's quite frustrating to use a language that's so close to Haskell, but without being able to use all the libraries you're used to. And I think now that Haskell's own story for web frontend is improving, some of its app
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by george_____t 3y ago
What's impractical about Haskell?
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by george_____t 3y ago
It has been rapidly improving over the last few years, though this can mean it's difficult to keep up. HLS (the LSP implementation) in particular is a pretty young project, and key compiler improvements which will help it improve are s
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by george_____t 3y ago
It's listed after Cabal as an "alternative", so a lot of people will presumably ignore it if they don't see any reason why they'd want anything else. I personally wish that page were even more opinionated, but it&#x
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by george_____t 3y ago
Python isn't the best language for exploring this sort of thing, by the author's own admission.
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by george_____t 5y ago
That Haskell forum is newish and isn't used much. There's more discussion on r/haskell.