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by kitd 4y ago
It's not off-topic though. D has the facility to compile C projects, as has Zig. OP asked a genuine question about whether Walter Bright was able to compare experiences.
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by kitd 4y ago
Tooling is why Go gets its foot in the door much quicker than other languages IMHO. A single binary with no dependencies that does pretty much everything.
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by kitd 4y ago
In the usual case, Erlang does not use a contiguous chunk of memory to represent a sequence of bytes. Instead, it something called an “I/O list” — a nested list of non-contiguous chunks of memory. The result is that concatenating two
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by kitd 4y ago
The author may be interested in Zig, where allocators are first-class components of the system. https://ziglang.org/documentation/0.9.1/#Choosing-an-Allocat... There is even an arena allocator provided (amongst ot
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by kitd 4y ago
I agree. Hating OOP is somewhat mode du jour , but if you started out from languages like FORTRAN and C as I did, you organised your code around abstract data types and operations to work on them (including mechanisms like passing 'th
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by kitd 4y ago
Completely OT but, after 5 years of writing Go, TIL you can assign multiple LHS from multiple RHS: c1, c2 := a[i], b[i]
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by kitd 4y ago
OT, but UK pylons are gradually being replaced by a new design: https://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2... The current "Milliken" design as shown in the article has changed
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by kitd 4y ago
I appreciate the simplicity of the API compared with other libraries. Especially when setting up TLS. That by itself is a big win IMHO.
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by kitd 4y ago
This is a great write-up. Personal impressions like this are as good as, if not better then, numbers and benchmarks for comparing languages, especially when covering things like how easy the docs or tooling are to use. That's the side
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by kitd 4y ago
Is this a world record for proven genealogy? I read somewhere that the British monarchy held the record tracing back to mid-Saxon times. This blows that out of the water by about 600 years.
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by kitd 4y ago
One factor I see with my own kids is that the girls are more likely to study for class exams, whereas boys will just "wing it" and only put the effort in for standardised national exams.
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by kitd 4y ago
Unless you are actively using those functions, you should be fine. Up to a point. As with all CVEs, the issue tend to be whether your dependencies are using it, or their dependencies, etc, etc. mvn dependency:tree -Dverbose is yo
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by kitd 4y ago
I finished reading "The Mirror and the Light" just a few weeks ago. The final scenes leading up to Cromwell's execution was some of the best writing I have ever read. Cromwell was a fascinating person. There can be very few n
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by kitd 4y ago
Ikr. You can regularly read some random dev tell the world "interpreted" Java is "too slow" for them.
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by kitd 4y ago
The most productive workplace forum I have used was based on NNTP. So much better than "improvements" like Slack and Discourse. But then I considered it was really just a shared email. Would email with shared folders not achieve t
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by kitd 4y ago
All of which is why SaaS is a thing, no?
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by kitd 4y ago
didn’t bother to search their cars at the border. Not entirely true. They had sniffer dogs going over all the cars, and Gordievsky was hiding in the boot of one. The MI6 agents "accidentally" dropped a few cheese and onion crisp
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by kitd 4y ago
My concern would be around reflection, which I think you said gets used when running with virtual threads? and which native compilation can't handle easily. It may need a Quarkus-like pre-build step to generate glue code to work round
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by kitd 4y ago
Congrats on v5. Have you tried it yet with GraalVM and native compilation? Any gotchas?
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by kitd 4y ago
It's mentioned in the article. 3d printing is one form of application, as well as spraying and painting.
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by kitd 4y ago
That's a different project
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by kitd 4y ago
I have long considered that having to have the class definition explicit in the file is redundant, especially as the 2 have to have the same name anyway. Obviously if you need to `extend` or `implement` then an explicit declaration is neede
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by kitd 4y ago
The single most complex component I have ever written in about 35 years of SW development was a scheduler to calculate the next instance in a set of overlaid periodic cycles, allowing for time zones, DST changes, leap year/centuries, e
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by kitd 4y ago
Agreed. Heavy stuff up high has a greater turning couple with any movement of the spine, putting uneven stresses on the back. Heavy stuff around the hips is much better.
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by kitd 4y ago
Replacing YAML with spreadsheets has always been our mission as a company, and we will continue to do so. I mean ... it's not THAT daft an idea tbh
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by kitd 4y ago
I've put Docker onto small VPSes. It's no hassle. The heavy part is Nginx. Adding the container on top won't be making much difference to the size.
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by kitd 4y ago
Nice! It would be cool if it flipped from left- to right-side driving depending on host's IP address?
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by kitd 4y ago
Different occasion. The guy holding the poster definitely shouldn't have been arrested. The guy shouting at Prince Andrew during the procession was breaching the peace. Different context, which was my point.
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by kitd 4y ago
Well sure. But the point of my argument was there's a time and a place for that.
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by kitd 4y ago
They didn't. It was the thousands of people gathered in silence and respect who did.

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