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by hedayet 8mo ago
now we have only int64 for integer types and float64 for floating point types. Thanks everyone for your thoughtful feedback!
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by hedayet 8mo ago
yes, support for unbounded loop is definitely something on my roadmap towards v1.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] That’s a good point. I can see why int might be clearer than num, especially given the long history of that naming. I’ll think about it.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
agreed that we should only allow unpacking the value of a rox_result[T] in a safe branch.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] That’s a very good point - "not ceremony" was poorly phrased. ROX does introduce more explicitness, which indeed introduces more ceremony. The goal isn’t to reduce keystrokes; it’s to reduce hidden behaviour. A bette
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by hedayet 8mo ago
https://github.com/taman-islam/roxlang
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] ROX avoids implicit structural sharing and persistent data structures. Allocation and mutation are explicit - if I want a modified container, I construct one. This is intentionally more resource-intensive. ROX trades some effi
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] as of today - no. I'm super keen to keep the concept of destructors and GC hidden from this language interface.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] What @joshuamorton said + my rationale was - for natural language users too, a "list" should be more intuitive than `array` or `vector` I'm more than happy to be corrected though.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
[author here] Very good questions; I definitely would like to revisit num32 very shortly. I'd say the initial rational of having num32 is not coherent right now, but I'll have to verify removing the support. we have floating point
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Show HN: ROX – a minimal language with explicit errors and no magic(roxlang.com)
3 points by hedayet 8mo ago|4 comments
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by hedayet 8mo ago
Is there a way to verify there was 0 human intervention on the crabby-rathbun side?
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by hedayet 8mo ago
Great question - we keep memory management intentionally simple. 1. There’s no manual memory management exposed at the language level (no pointers, no allocation APIs). I intend to keep it this way as long as possible. 2. Containers (list[T
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I'm building a clarity-first language (compiles to C++)(github.com)
35 points by hedayet 8mo ago|51 comments
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America isn't exceptional – it's the exception(not-ship.com)
18 points by hedayet 8mo ago|34 comments
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by hedayet 8mo ago
Tech companies buying computing real estate with surplus profit isn't conviction in my book.
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by hedayet 8mo ago
A bubble doesn’t necessarily imply the underlying technology is useless. It implies that expectations and capital allocation have significantly outpaced realistic returns, leading to painful corrections for bulls. And with AI, a classic bub
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by hedayet 9mo ago
The same people selling you AI today (AGI tomorrow) were the ones selling remote work yesterday. Then "mandated" everyone back to the office. Oh, and most of them had a crypto bag too. <sigh>
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by hedayet 9mo ago
or convince one member of a group chat to show their group chat...
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by hedayet 9mo ago
With all the predatory tech Palantir has produced, it won't take more than a few minutes for FBI to start taking actions, IF they had anything tangible. This is just an intimidation tactic to stop people talking (chatting)
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by hedayet 9mo ago
many prefer to remain ignorant about the consequences of their deeds; it helps them sleep better at night.
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by hedayet 9mo ago
You are getting downvoted because your intent is burried in the third line. Readers reading the first sentence are probably downvoting immediately thinking that's your PoV.
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by hedayet 9mo ago
Ex-facebook employee here: abandoning ethics in facebook didn't start in near past. And it's not only the legal team; engineers and PM team are even worse in this matter. Only people ready to do "anything" to optimize th
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by hedayet 9mo ago
I got two. But these events started to happen 4 years after my last shot.
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by hedayet 9mo ago
I was diagnosed with a mysterious tachycardia last year, coincidental to this headline: while I was living in Canada. At one point I checked into the ER with a resting heart rate around 200 BPM, and on some days my smartwatch couldn’t even
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by hedayet 9mo ago
And still last month one of my questions on SO got closed because it was - "too broad". I mean it was 2025 and how many very precise software engineering questions are there that any flagship models couldn't answer in second
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by hedayet 10mo ago
I agree with the principle: log level error should mean someone needs to fix something. This post frames the problem almost entirely from a sysadmin-as-log-consumer perspective, and concludes that a correctly functioning system shouldn’t em
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by hedayet 10mo ago
I can see the inspiration; But then again, how much investment will be required to verify the verifier? (it's still code - and is generated my a non-deterministic system)
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Naming is hard: Google's PubSubHubbub(pubsubhubbub.appspot.com)
3 points by hedayet 10mo ago|1 comments
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by hedayet 10mo ago
I'd be interested in adopting a sole-purpose framework like that.

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