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by linguafranca 12y ago
Thanks for the tl;dr. It seemed like an awfully long article for non-news.
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by linguafranca 12y ago
It's nice to see the Clojure/ClojureScript community growing. But the fact remains that these tools still don't enjoy the maturity of their more mainstream counterparts. So if you use any ClojureScript libraries in production
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by linguafranca 12y ago
This is one of the reasons I very strongly support the Neovim project. They are taking an incredibly sensible and pragmatic approach to modernizing Vim. Yes, there will be controversies. There always are. But even collaborative open source
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by linguafranca 12y ago
> I, personally, used ex-mode only a couple of times, so even if I will use neovim I don't think I would care. But that just doesn't sound like a right think to do. So he shouldn't remove it because of some strongly held
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by linguafranca 12y ago
"Elixir compiles directly into BEAM byte code." from http://elixir-lang.org/crash-course.html
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by linguafranca 12y ago
Elixir reminds me a lot of Clojure. - It's a language that sits on top of another language's bytecode (Erlang vs JVM) - It has its own task runner and dependency manager (mix vs lein) - It has homoiconicity and macros! - One of it
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by linguafranca 12y ago
Only slightly related, but I often solve hard(ish) programming problems while I'm in that state between asleep and awake throughout the night. Take that, cliche!
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by linguafranca 12y ago
Sorry, am I missing something here? What's the context? Is Apple accused of some recent scam? Is this because of them forcing U2 into our accounts?
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by linguafranca 12y ago
> Because Lua is a strictly less useful language than elisp. The word "useful" is too subjective to be useful here. > - It doesn't have macros. There's MetaLua for those who truly think they need macros. But in
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by linguafranca 12y ago
Good point. But it's not unheard of to write a transpiler from Language X to Lua. See the VimL compiler in NeoVim[1]. [1]: https://github.com/neovim/neovim/wiki/FAQ#lua-and-vimscript-...
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by linguafranca 12y ago
The history behind AppleScript involved being able to write it in any language, not just English. But that was a terrible idea and Apple knows that. English (more specifically, JavaScript) is the Lingua Franca for the majority of programmin
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by linguafranca 12y ago
I think you're misreading the document, I don't think you actually have to instantiate an NSTask in order to compare whether another application is running. You would just do something like this: Mail = Application('Mail&
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by linguafranca 12y ago
The goal here seems very vague and not well defined. And the fact that all its members are high-profile companies worries me that their involvement will merely been a facade for publicity more than anything truly constructive.
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by linguafranca 12y ago
Why isn't Lua even a choice? It's small, portable, easily embeddable, lightning fast, supports high-level functional programming idioms, and is extremely flexible in creating and enforcing policies (via metaprogramming).