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by mhd 3y ago
I looked into maybe using this a few months ago, but decided against it. https://board.asm32.info/hi-johnfound-welcome-back.351/#1624...
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by mhd 3y ago
When your LLM is fed by blind Buddhist monks.
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by mhd 3y ago
I haven't had a look at Dart for a long time (last time to see if it could do Angular with less pain). IIRC the original chief developer left Google and the language took a rather different turn, towards more type(script)-iness. Flutte
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by mhd 3y ago
The author wrote a very simple MPEG[1] decoder, so there's an obvious benchmark for making that even simpler. I personally wouldn't mind a Quite OK Page Description Langage. Something that gets you most of PDF/PS/HPGL wi
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by mhd 3y ago
Sure that was a regular bitrate stereo mp3? I remember struggling a lot with my 486DX/100, waiting for better assembly optimization to happen on Linux (to keep up with a DOS mp3 player that handled it better).
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by mhd 3y ago
> 1990's? Once it was 1995 you wouldn't be caught dead with a 486. I remember going from my 486 to something higher being rather expensive. Expensive processor, new mainboard needed and depending on what your non-ISA bus situat
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by mhd 3y ago
It really depends on what you're missing from ExtJS. Yes, there are some frameworks oriented towards more desktop-like UI components. Some of them even do layout, maybe even non-view stuff (Kendo seems to do at least the former). But t
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by mhd 3y ago
Simula still is less forgotten than its successor BETA.
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by mhd 3y ago
I kinda miss CoffeeScript, to be honest. I also miss ExtJs.
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Restful is a scam, but browsers are cool(cohost.org)
5 points by mhd 3y ago|1 comments
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by mhd 3y ago
Well, you still had to ship floppies, which kinda limits your pace. And with heavily fragmented platforms, standards – informal or formal – helped as one vendor didn't cover everything. And thus compatibility to someone's else Pas
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by mhd 3y ago
So, basically Sturgeon's law, where 80% of everything is crud, and now we got a huge crud heap, but also lot's of shining gems besides it? I'm not that sure about that, mostly because I'd say that the actual quality of
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by mhd 3y ago
> In my experience, this is the main problem with choosing an off the beaten path language/database/library X. It increasingly is also the case with regular libraries and programming languages. This was somewhat accepted for
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by mhd 3y ago
> The language has respectably reached that level of maturity and support that allows it to just continues on, quietly running in the background. Didn't Apple tinker with Objective-C a lot during its runtime, or am I just concentrat
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by mhd 3y ago
Can't say that I expected this. Wasn't there some fork that also stopped development years ago (SXEmacs, maybe)? I remember using XEmacs more in my early Linux days, I think it did color syntax highlighting in the terminal earlier
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by mhd 3y ago
I've been doing some Angular-/Nest-ish TypeScript projects, and it's basically Spring with more bugs and = signs.
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by mhd 3y ago
Ah, WebObjects, one of the sad "dead ends" of web tech, not because of being technically obsolete, but because the world moved to different stacks… I'd put ColdFusion, AolServer and Seaside in the same category.
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by mhd 3y ago
Ah, Sather gets mentioned. That's a name I haven't heard in a long time. I remember looking at it during the latter half of the 90s when I was searching for the perfect OO language... https://www1.icsi.berkeley.edu&#x2F
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by mhd 3y ago
Doesn't Tcl's "trace" feature do this?
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by mhd 3y ago
I've got some bad experience with C++ for this. Yes, part of that was losing the flow, which is probably why way back then scripting languages were easier to sell than these days (where you can throw more money on the issue, with umpte
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by mhd 3y ago
There even used to be a rubydramas.com site, if I remember correctly (parked domain right now). https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4801226 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4487963 https://n
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by mhd 3y ago
Ruby's Matz counts as a BFDL, does he? Because there was plenty of drama in that area...
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by mhd 3y ago
There was also Small-C[1], which initially only did integers, characters and simple arrays. Formed the basis for quite a few derivates. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Small-C
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by mhd 3y ago
Regarding LOCs, how many Plan9s are there in LLVM/Rust? I wouldn't mind a Plan9-ish Rust compiler setup, though.
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by mhd 3y ago
> Funny thing: TOML author/inventor calls it a mistake You mean the author of this specific python implementation, or did Tom Preston-Werner ever disavow it?
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by mhd 3y ago
Not to be confused with the Tom Programming Language[0], a kind of early 2000s proto-Swift. [0]: http://www.gerbil.org/tom/
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by mhd 3y ago
Last time I did some longer groff documents (ages ago), I was quite disappointed by the paragraph layout, closer to Word quality than TeX. I know that heirloom troff[0] boasts some improvements here (by using the TeX algorithm), but did gro
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by mhd 3y ago
Related: Sane VS Code[0] [0]: https://datagubbe.se/vsc/
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by mhd 3y ago
I'm assuming cross-compiled from a way more modern computer. Or could a Pentium I complete a Rust run?
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by mhd 3y ago
To each their own. I've been looking for a good source for bonsai kittens for over 20 years now!

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