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by jen20 1y ago
If Pascal doesn't have required exhaustive pattern matching, it's no better than Go or C# in this regard.
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by jen20 1y ago
Different trade offs, both are fine. The downside of a small stdlib is the proliferation of options, and you suddenly discover(ed?, it's been a minute) that your async package written for Tokio won't work on async-std and so forth
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by jen20 1y ago
I can count on fewer hands the number of times I've been bitten by such things in over 10 years of professional Go vs bitten just in the last three weeks by half-assed Java.
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by jen20 1y ago
Erlang (or Elixir) are absolutely Go replacements for the types of software where CSP is likely important. Source: spent the last few weeks at work replacing a Go program with an Elixir one instead. I'd use Go again (without question)
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by jen20 1y ago
Is it even clear it is an acquihire rather than the more boring “company hires maintainer of code it uses”?
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by jen20 1y ago
This is a more defensible take than some on here, but still a wild comparison. FDB was closed source software that existing customers kept source access to the entire time it was closed, and then opened under a permissive license soon after
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by jen20 1y ago
Wrong. Apple opened it FOR THE FIRST TIME. It was closed source software prior to acquisition.
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by jen20 1y ago
Excuse me? FDB was a closed source product, and Apple open sourced it under a permissive license and have since spent tens of millions of dollars on maintainers salaries and open sourced all kinds of adjacent software. How did this idiotic,
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by jen20 1y ago
> If anything, it's a new IntelliJ. I do not understand how one says this with a straight face unless you’ve never used either product. Do you also believe Neovim to be a “new IntelliJ”? That’s the level of functionality out the box
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by jen20 1y ago
Counterpoint: the updated UI looks and works great, and their software has never felt higher quality.
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by jen20 1y ago
> vscode works for everything. IntelliJ did that before Atom even had ‘git init’ run on it.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Cursor seemingly came out of nowhere and is already doing $300–400M annually, rivaling JetBrains (who took 20 years to get there Revenue, not profit. I’d imagine cursor loses a dollar for every 50 cents of revenue and makes it up in vo
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by jen20 1y ago
> Some of us just want a good editor for free. Sums up the problem neatly. Everyone wants everything for free. Someone has to pay the developers. Sometimes things align (there is indeed a discussion in LinkedIn about Apple hiring the OPA
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by jen20 1y ago
The reason I’ve been using Zed is _because_ there is no screwing about with any of that stuff. For Erlang and Elixir it’s been less problematic than IntelliJ, faster and less gross than VS code, and hasn’t required me to edit configuration
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by jen20 1y ago
Depends which IDE. IntelliJ stays open permanently. When I used full-fat visual studio it would crash so often that I’d have developed an even worse caffeine problem had I fetched coffee every time it needed restarting.
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by jen20 1y ago
Are you suggesting the FSF has a copyright assignment for the purposes of “rug pulls”?
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by jen20 1y ago
Using HTTP as a linker (i.e. microservices as typically implemented) gives you a ton of other problems to worry about instead though...
528.
by jen20 1y ago
Many things do not give you that option, and the ads are obnoxious and invasive to privacy. If that is the only option, you will get nothing from me, and your ads will be blocked. Furthermore if there is a content subscription involved, I w
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by jen20 1y ago
Do you ever bother to ask whether they are recommending it for a use case other than a replicated log?
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by jen20 1y ago
There is no such thing as “poaching” employees - just paying them a market rate.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Also what is the idea of everything is delivered in source now Basic sanity.
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by jen20 1y ago
While I agree, one thing that would really help there is the notion of test dependencies separate from ones that will end up in a production binary. Testify in particular is widely used in tests yet pulls in an entire YAML parser.
533.
by jen20 1y ago
Nor is Spring Boot with hidden implicit behaviour all over the show. Nor are AbstractProxyFactoryBeans, or IOC containers. Code you can read and understand linearly and end to end is hugely underrated.
534.
by jen20 1y ago
I’m not entirely sure what you think you’re arguing for or against here.
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by jen20 1y ago
And yet, the actual publicized investment plans are barely any different from what they were under Biden and likely would have been under Harris.
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by jen20 1y ago
This is only true if you consider AI to be LLMs and chatbots. The non-LLM AI built into just the iPhone camera is almost certainly the largest scale consumer deployment of any AI but largely goes unnoticed because it works so well.
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by jen20 1y ago
Was there a point in recent memory where it wasn’t? As a non-American I’d always considered them to be the Oxford and Cambridge (respectively) of the US.
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by jen20 1y ago
> Should I be taxed on that gain immediately? Should I be forced to sell part of my property to cover it? In much of the US, you made a loss, since your property taxes will go up the next year. > I'd love to live in a world where
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by jen20 1y ago
While this is a nice story, it's not true [1] [2]. [1]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/chevrolet-nova-name-spanis... [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevrolet_Chevy_II_/_Nova
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by jen20 1y ago
Huh, apparently so! It doesn't seem like much has happened since - there certainly aren't many pull requests which reference Swift [0] since it was restored. [0]: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/pul

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