jackmott

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by jackmott 9y ago
yep. yep. yep.
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by jackmott 9y ago
Nim has a beautiful syntax, I feel a bit like i am getting the expressiveness and ease of F# but with much better performance and nice small executables instead of byte code that needs a runtime. c interop being easy and no cost is also ver
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by jackmott 9y ago
jvm is an impressive thing but so is gcc and clang and they have time to crunch harder and are not constrained by lack of value types or lack of unsigned ints or lack of explicit SIMD instructions and on and on and on
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by jackmott 9y ago
I think one of the things that get people excited about Go on desktop is it is one of the few well supported GC langs that compiles to an exe. There isn't anything else super compelling about it. On android, everything gets AOT compile
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by jackmott 9y ago
As long as the work truck daily cycle can be done in 1 charge then there isn't a problem at all. Top it off every night. For long trips, ie 18 wheelers, yeah it is kind of a no go without quick-swap batteries. Which isn't that hug
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by jackmott 9y ago
that mode still completely changes the universe. nobody can make a living selling chromebook software without consent of and payment to google.
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by jackmott 9y ago
a distressingly large number of programmers are welcoming it in windows world with the encroachment of windows store lockdown. its really depressing.
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by jackmott 9y ago
it isn't at all clear what your point is.
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by jackmott 9y ago
anyone that can explain or refer to explanations of why ocaml boxes floats?
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by jackmott 9y ago
16 bits lets them build something that goes much faster and/or faster per watt and neural nets don't need even 16bits usually. pretty simple!
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by jackmott 9y ago
Yes, I would hire him, and not you.
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by jackmott 9y ago
Einhorn can do what he wants I'm just not inclined to care.
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by jackmott 9y ago
can nim handle gc across threads yet?
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by jackmott 9y ago
"new idioms and special syntax that is alien to pretty much everyone" -> "an `Error` trait with appropriate `From` impls." Note, that it may be entirely necessary for us to invent new idioms to make progress in the ar
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by jackmott 9y ago
There are only so many brain cells on earth, can we stop using them to make javascript things on the desktop slightly less slow? Let's just not use it.
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by jackmott 9y ago
modern reading of entrails.
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by jackmott 9y ago
good in that it the easiest option for moderm developers to get something done? yes. but it is horribly inefficient and we the industry should provide a better tool than this nonsense
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by jackmott 9y ago
There just seems to be some people who don't think having to install large runtimes, potentially specific versions of them, to make your app run, is a problem. I don't understand them either. Perhaps they are focused on server so
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by jackmott 9y ago
The GC is also used for game script code, optionally. It isn't being used in the engine internals,at least not everywhere.
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by jackmott 9y ago
Some discussion of the efficiency cost of our current favorite higher level languages would be nice. There are things about Python that people love, and I think we should strive to provide that with something more like a 2% performance pen
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by jackmott 9y ago
These posts that pretend or imagine they have a deeper understanding of the science than the rest of us are super irritating. The writers of the economist article know, climate scientists know, and hackernews readers all know that the clima
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by jackmott 9y ago
>And that is the result of regulation It might be the result of some local regulatory deal they have made to become a monopoly, but it isn't the result of FCC's net neutrality regulation. Have you ever looked around the world a
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by jackmott 9y ago
a language server is that, but can be more than that.
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by jackmott 9y ago
Hardware might be cheap at some scales, but what if your service gets popular? What it latency for a single request can't be improved with more cores? What if your product is used by consumers who may have old hardware? or phones, or w
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by jackmott 9y ago
Thank you. It has just occurred to me I can use this feature at work! lol
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by jackmott 9y ago
D is GC optional, so that makes it pretty different than Java and C# and Go. It also compiles to native exes as the normal procedure. You can do that with Java / C# in special cases though. D is much easier to pick up than Rust. Rust s
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by jackmott 9y ago
I like David Lynch's Dune as well. It is weird, but interesting.
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by jackmott 9y ago
I agree there are a number of improvements that could be made if we sacrificed backwards compatibility, it is just so hard to get everyone on board.
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by jackmott 9y ago
If we want to do that, we need to make it possible to fully harness the abilities of the computer in other languages. Just as a litmus test: In how many languages can you cause the SIMD shuffle instruction to be used, explicitly? How many h
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by jackmott 9y ago
can you provide empirical evidence to support your theory?

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