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by losvedir 4y ago
Ha, Stormlight Archive was the first thing I thought of, too.
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by losvedir 4y ago
Looks cool! I don't know anything about it, but I'll add it to my list for sure. From the website it looks like it hits my type-desires. I can't tell - is it garbage collected or a manual memory language?
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by losvedir 4y ago
Kind of a follow-up to an earlier question I posted here, "What's the best 'higher level Rust' these days" [0]? Following that discussion, I figured it would be fun to dabble in several of the languages mentioned. I
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Show HN: An informal comparison of several programming languages(github.com)
3 points by losvedir 4y ago|5 comments
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I'd like to stake out the position, which I hope remains within the overton window, as tenable, that "information wants to be free". There was a pretty strong contingent of people in the tech world that believed that at one p
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> Rust's enums and exhaustive match statement are just amazing, and now that I'm using them daily I can barely imagine how I could live without them for so long. I feel this! I absolutely love rust's fancy enums - i.e. not
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by losvedir 4y ago
As a relative newbie in Rust who recently dabbled with Axum, I wholeheartedly agree that the handlers and extractors are magical and hard for first-time users. Another issue I ran into that's not mentioned in the post, is the compile-t
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by losvedir 4y ago
Ah, I think this is actually a very interesting example. My understanding is that TigerBeetle started its development under the company Coil, and was eventually spun out to its own company. I think this post my almost be directly speaking t
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by losvedir 4y ago
Do you have any stats or profiling info on the binary lockfile? JSON gets parsed so fast (GBs in a second?) that intuitively it doesn't seem to me like it would be a bottleneck, especially if you have the flexibility to change the repr
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by losvedir 4y ago
Seriously. I'm pretty stoked to see what happens here. I was an early backer of the Rift and have been just gobsmacked by how far it's come since then! I bought myself a Quest a few years ago and was so impressed by it I bought on
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by losvedir 4y ago
Is this the "Project Cambria" that had been previewed earlier?
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Oof, Wheel of Time really drags in the middle there! I almost threw in the towel several times. Fortunately, though, when Brandon takes over the pacing really picks up and it does have a satisfying conclusion! That was my introduction to
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by losvedir 4y ago
A GitHub log of his attempt was discussed on HN[0] a couple days ago. This is the more fleshed out recap/postmortem/discussion of that process. [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33070247
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Sqllogictest in a week, how safe is Zig again(scattered-thoughts.net)
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Wow, that's really interesting! I hadn't seen anything comparing when you could eat among different time-restricted diets before. Thanks for sharing.
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Huh, I've been intermittent fasting (eating only between 11am - 7pm for me) for most of this year, and haven't noticed any emotional changes like that. But the physical ones definitely! I feel way healthier and my bloodwork just c
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by losvedir 4y ago
Typescript as a language is better than "isn't too bad", it's great! I love the syntax for unions and how normal things like "if" will narrow types. But I agree that it's a shame that the JS ecosystem is s
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by losvedir 4y ago
But Facebook is a platform unto itself. If it was still an enjoyable product that everyone used, and connected to their local interests and groups on, they could still have great, targeted advertising I think. But people don't really s
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by losvedir 4y ago
Actually, the use case of running other people's scripts is pretty neat. I audit pretty closely the code I use in my projects for work (the use case I was thinking of), but having Deno as a scripting platform, and running a script some
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by losvedir 4y ago
Sure, I suppose if you granted it at the library level that might be good, but it's at the whole app level. You could maintain a very fine grained list of network URLs, though. That might be nice if you could configure in the `deno.con
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by losvedir 4y ago
Deno is pretty neat. I really want it to succeed. I really like TypeScript, and Deno almost gives me what I want: pretending TypeScript is a full-fledged language, with a standard library, that I can build non-frontend apps with. Let's
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by losvedir 4y ago
Am I missing something, or does the article not go into its title of minimizing heap allocations at all? It talks about not having memory leaks, but no strategies for minimizing the use of the heap in the first place. As I understand it, th
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by losvedir 4y ago
Huh, Kotlin had almost completely slipped my radar but seems interesting from a quick glance now. I had always pigeonholed it as an "Android" language. Does it have general use?
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Oh, of course Haskell should be on the list, at least from the language/types perspective! What about packages? Last I looked into Haskell (years ago), there was some light controversy over two competing package ecosystems, I think. Ha
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I like the idea of Go, except I don't think it quite has the type system that I like. I saw it got generics recently, but that actually wasn't very high on my priorities, compared to being able to say "this value is an intege
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Ask HN: What's the best “higher level Rust” these days?
61 points by losvedir 4y ago|61 comments
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Wow, the phrase "information superhighway" really brought me back. I hadn't heard that for quite some time!
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by losvedir 4y ago
This is great! SerenityOS comes up on HN quite a bit and I've always been super impressed. Last time, he almost offhandedly mentioned it had its own browser and I thought that was so notable in itself that I started sponsoring him on G
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I'm very excited to see the new work on debugging. I'd always been a sort of simple "printf" type debugger, but the recent John Carmack interview about his process has had me rethinking things. With all the investment th
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Reminds me of MIT, ~15 years ago. For dorm rush, when incoming freshman walk around campus and decide where they want to live, undergrads at my dorm, East Campus, would build out some neat, full-size wooden roller coasters. I never personal

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