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by jclark_th 5mo ago
Author here. When I started working on SatPulse a few years ago, I was focused on a narrow use case: making it easy to create your own PTP server using inexpensive hardware. But it turned out that producing a really good solution for this u
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SatPulse: A server-oriented alternative to gpsd(satpulse.net)
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by jclark_th 7y ago
Another paper saying something similar https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3550308
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by jclark_th 7y ago
I didn't say that all the listed problems were caused by the goal of being familiar. It doesn't yet have generics because they are hard to get right and the language is still at an early stage. Many languages that subsequently add
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by jclark_th 7y ago
There’s lots of detail in the language spec: https://ballerina.io/spec/lang/2019R3/ I also wrote a blog explaining what we are trying to achieve: https://blog.jclark.com/2019/09/ball
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by jclark_th 7y ago
Ballerina has simple lambdas e.g. x => x + 1.
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by jclark_th 7y ago
The language has a lot of syntactic compromises, because it has a design goal of being familiar to users of C-family languages like C, JavaScript, Java, C#, etc.
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by jclark_th 7y ago
Thank you for your comments. Both the cartoon and the sentence you highlighted have been fixed. We want to create an environment where everybody feels welcome. Your rule about not sexualizing the name seems like an excellent idea.
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by jclark_th 7y ago
Here's what the spec [1] says about the sequence diagram aspect of the language: "[Ballerina's] abstractions and syntax for concurrency and network interaction have been designed so that there is a close correspondence with s