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by junk_disposal 10y ago
1. Sometimes being able to ship is more important than being perfect 2. Sometimes I don't care if it's perfect. If I need something for in-house use, Go (and Python) is quite enough for my needs.
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
>I don't understand people who hate generics. They are just types and they are here to help the developer write compile time type safe code. interface {} everywhere isn't compile time type safe. You're right, and the FAQ e
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
What's the advantage of DDG over StartPage? They both rely on outside sources of data and both anonymize your searches.
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
In reality, that's why I think that neither Go nor Rust will ever replace C (Maybe C++, Java or Python), because nothing can replace C. C worked in the 70s, when a naive compiler + asm would work perfectly.
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
Honestly, Optimizing compilers will kill C. It killed the one thing C was good at - simplicity (you know exactly what happens where, note I'm not saying speed, as C++ can be quite a bit faster than C). Now, due to language lawyering, y
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
>This comes down to one of the key differences between Linux and BSD: BSD "owns" its userland—the people who develop the kernel, or some system utility, can literally decide to change something, and then do a global search-and-
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
>The Linux community was way more trying to run on everything. In contrast to some opinions, I like this sometimes. For example, would the world come to an end if FreeBSD came with neovim? If the prompt out of the box showed pwd? I know
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
>Debian doesn't always just work, because a lot of packages are very old. If you need new packages, you don't run stable. You run stable if you need things, well, stable and "just works".
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
>you can easily run your own pkg repository with binaries compiled for multiple architectures (with build enviroments isolated with "jail") and providing the full range of compilation customization included in the ports tree. S
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
That's the FreeBSD line, but I don't think it's so simple. The lawsuit ended in 1994. That was before RedHat, and one year into Debian. At that time, the majority of Unixen were proprietary, so if you wanted your programsto r
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
In my opinion (mostly Debian user with a bit of FreeBSD playing), people use Debian as a server for the same reason a lot of people like MacOS over Linux - It Just Works. 1. For many years, the only way to install software was ports. Now if
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by junk_disposal 10y ago
Can you say that traits are like Go interfaces?