markusw

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by markusw 2y ago
I'm happy you found your hammer as well! :D
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by markusw 2y ago
I like that! Go is basically pizza! :D
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by markusw 2y ago
But often, a client needs a developer for an existing stack, and advertising as a Go programmer (for example) gives you an edge over someone who doesn't, in my experience.
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by markusw 2y ago
Yeah, WASM is interesting! I haven't followed the space at all, but I guess the browser is the new JVM? :D
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by markusw 2y ago
You're totally right about CGo. For example, I'm very happy that I can use the insanely well-tested original SQLite C library directly in Go, and sleep easy that it's not some half-ported pure Go library. (I know there's
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by markusw 2y ago
I don't understand. How can it be an illusion of productivity when it actually produces something that's very easy to see?
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by markusw 2y ago
Haha, sweet. :D
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by markusw 2y ago
Thanks! I guess I have moments of insight sometimes. :D
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by markusw 2y ago
I would say there are many, many other ways to broaden my perspective, not just learning and using a different programming language. There are so many things to learn! (And I don't necessarily suggest not learning different languages,
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by markusw 2y ago
It's not really about Go, I think. But it makes me productive, and I like that. I don't think it's a magic bullet at all. Lots of things annoy me about it. But it's _good enough_ for quite a lot of things IMO. But tying
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by markusw 2y ago
I believe there are many different hype cycles at once, depending on ones vantage point. The world is large!
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by markusw 2y ago
Nope, it's the same. It's one of the things I value about the language and project.
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by markusw 2y ago
What you see as missing, others (including myself) see as delightfully constrained and solved in a different way.
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by markusw 2y ago
It actually gets even better! :D Enjoy the journey!
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by markusw 2y ago
I choose to read most comments in a positive light, but thank you for your kindness. :)
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by markusw 2y ago
Yep, totally agree! But I learned Go, so I wrote about that. :D I tried Brainfuck once, but I don't think my brain can wrap that enough to make it a career.
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by markusw 2y ago
I guess we're at "I am Go and also a hammer and all the nails" then. :D
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by markusw 2y ago
Yes, I definitely could have. But I don't know C#, so that would have been an awful blog post. :D
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by markusw 2y ago
Yup, this exactly!
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by markusw 2y ago
Author here. Well, it has worked pretty well for me so far, so I don't know why I would switch. Go is fast and expressive enough for my use, and it's probably outweighed by being super familiar anyway. (BTW, in my eight years of G
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by markusw 2y ago
I wasn't aiming for that. My point is more: I know Go already, it's good enough for my purposes, so I'm using that as my hammer. I could just as well have been Java or C# I learned eight years ago and used that for everything
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Go is my hammer, and everything is a nail(maragu.dev)
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by markusw 2y ago
True, good points. But I would prefer that the land is then used for plant-based food for people instead of (as I recall) 60% for feeding the animals for meat export.
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by markusw 2y ago
I live in Denmark. We have way more pigs than people here. We export most. Only 2% of our nature isn’t farmland. The farming sector only contributes marginally to our economy, while being responsible for an extraordinary amount of the carbo
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by markusw 2y ago
Good thing it’s not all food then, but things that are actively bad for our continued existence on this planet.
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by markusw 2y ago
Good thing we have scientists who can model things so we don’t have to guess blindly! https://ourworldindata.org/carbon-price I live in Denmark and look forward to this change.
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by markusw 2y ago
Really interesting read, thank you for sharing! You mentioned that building tinypilot suddenly sparked way more interest than your other attempts. Do you have a plan for your next product? Try out different things and hope you find somethin
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by markusw 2y ago
Hey, I wrote that! :D I hope you find it useful.
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by markusw 3y ago
Honestly, I don't know. I've never measured because it's never been a problem. Most of it is writing string literals to an io.Writer, no idea what the overhead is there. Could be fun to write some benchmarks. :) With regard t
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by markusw 3y ago
Cool! What does reactive client-side rendering mean in this context? That state changes are pushed from the server?

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