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by jmaker 2y ago
I love Swift but had to stop every time before getting serious for several reasons. As a language it’s just amazing. But whenever it’s come to performance on the backend, it would be not enough by a large margin. Take JSON serialization for
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by jmaker 3y ago
That’s a great point indeed. In Java and C++, there have been quite a few deprecations over the years and decades. In the Rust community, there’s unfortunately quite a lot of interesting but abandoned crates.
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by jmaker 3y ago
I think if the Rust team had the capacity they might have considered adding—and maintaining—more stdlib functionality. I never asked for details but I guess that the core Rust enjoys only a fraction of the funding Go and .NET have enjoyed.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Would be great to have a Homebrew formula for the font distribution. I know for a team of two it’s perhaps a bit beyond the scope, any plans on it by a chance?
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by jmaker 3y ago
Totally, been doing it for a long time in IntelliJ and the other JetBrains IDEs, still stunning colleagues by simply check marking blocks or lines to commit the way it conveys hopefully the most meaning, so there is little if any dependence
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by jmaker 3y ago
Thanks for these insights, Ron. Indeed, it’s mostly due to the dependencies that it’s not always simple to upgrade. Some Gradle plugins must also be updated. Code generators are rather fragile and some of them bluntly violate javac constrai
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by jmaker 3y ago
Similar issues with WebDAV mounts on macOS
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by jmaker 3y ago
There are lots of apps sold outside the macOS App Store. I’m unaware whether their vendors have paid a commission on those sales. Are they now affected by that move or is it only limited to iOS? Otherwise it would look like you know sacrifi
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by jmaker 3y ago
Yes it’s the echo chamber of the promotion funnels that makes it appear as if everyone were jumping ship every few days. In my bubble, Angular and React are the primary frontend frameworks, with Vue sometimes being ahead and sometimes behin
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by jmaker 3y ago
Oh what an immense loss, my sincerest condolences. Nick’s textbooks are a goldmine, it was my go to reference for many years, very deep and motivating, paving the road to much deeper and very thoughtful comprehension of numerical methods. V
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by jmaker 3y ago
I know what you mean but it’s been quite fine for me. With AWS, you have a JMS compliant message router in SQS, and SNS is okay, just might need an adapter to the message schema. I don’t like some of their limitations that are foreign to me
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by jmaker 3y ago
It might be purely marketing-oriented, or perhaps it’s just sales-funnel-oriented, who knows. And if anything unexpected pops up, look no further, the author can immediately come up with a new name for a decades old solution. Same happened
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by jmaker 3y ago
Of course, a classical trade-off. That’s why I’m taking time to discuss that here. The cost incurred by upstream updates reshuffling the hull makes it for hard budget and timeline decisions and risk management. That’s why larger projects wi
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by jmaker 3y ago
The transitive hull of the deps
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by jmaker 3y ago
You get what you pay for. You own what you possess. AWS is expensive and not without trouble but in my experience they’ve been best of the pack. Otherwise, on-premises + collocation is never a mistake if the maintenance and upright expendit
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by jmaker 3y ago
Totally agreed on your first sentence. Yes, I don’t want to keep in memory the minute details of how I set up the infrastructure or the platform. That’s why I have that in IaC format and have a dedicated operator on my team so they can deal
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by jmaker 3y ago
That’s totally efficient, awesome, thanks for sharing.
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by jmaker 3y ago
I’ve observed those issues on the industry default CSPs. Terrible latencies for some services. Some of those budget CSPs simply resell AWS and Azure and GCP and OCP, while others run on commodity VPS infrastructure. And honestly there’s sti
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by jmaker 3y ago
With IaC it’s become feasible. You kinda iteratively build it up. With something more predictable like Nix it really gets close to shops run by a single person. And on e you start to get managed infrastructure, next question that pops up wo
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by jmaker 3y ago
Depends on the industry I think
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by jmaker 3y ago
That 60 for collocation only, right? How are you amortizing the machine if that’s the case? What SLAs with the closet owner?
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by jmaker 3y ago
That’s knowledge forgotten in a week, unless you’re an ops side professional. You kinda set it up once and hope to forget to focus on your application layer.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Both are quite happy to terminate users’ accounts, but on paper it’s really compelling indeed.
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by jmaker 3y ago
With comparable reliability, resilience, durability, and latency? I doubt scalability up or out is reasonable to ask, correct me if I’m underestimating its potential.
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by jmaker 3y ago
Yes, absolutely, Java’s compatibility story has been stellar. To the point that people got spoiled by it and no longer want to join the more agile release cycle. I’ve experienced folks being more like “oh finally, now I can express myself a
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by jmaker 3y ago
Gradle is still at JDK 21, albeit not comprehensively as it sometimes still fails to build on anything more recent than JDK 20. Most projects haven’t transitioned to JDK 17 yet. There’s a gap already. I don’t really want to draw parallels b
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by jmaker 3y ago
I don’t know, as many times as I approached ORMs in Rust, every time it felt more like it’s easier to ditch Rust altogether than to use an ORM. At some point you simply reach a significant complexity of your model declaration at which it’s
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by jmaker 3y ago
I’ve been using the C++ rewrites for a while and been enjoying it, are there also drop-in replacements in Rust now? Never happened to come across one, would be interested to learn more about it.
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by jmaker 3y ago
While I do totally agree on the necessity of the steps you outlined, I have yet to discover a reliable ETA for Valhalla and Leyden, and Panama, it’s been like a carrot on a stick so far. And I do totally realize that certain consistency bou
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by jmaker 3y ago
Definitely, microbenchmarks are what’s most striking especially because they seem immediately approachable, as opposed to a full fledged app with a variety of integrations. In that case the quality of the dependencies is much more important

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