notthinking

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   by notthinking 16y ago

   Just had a quick skim over some of that chapter, and it is very compelling, especially when I see how well its worked for AwesomeWM (my desktop environment of choice) and how many commercial games are using it for user scripting [1]. [1] h
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   by notthinking 16y ago

   I think the most compelling thing about Lua (to someone with no Lua experience), is that its appears (from examples, and what people have said) that its good for embedding inside another program (size wise and good FFI). In a video I saw, b
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   by notthinking 17y ago

   Java having lots of jobs isnt a good metric, because theres lots of jobs also means theres lots of people applying, in fact I would say a good reason to not use Java would be to simply weed away (some) people applying
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   by notthinking 17y ago

   It might be my relative newness to software, but I enjoy looking at other peoples code to see what works (pick up new language features) and what doesnt.
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   by notthinking 17y ago

   Arch Linux - Rolling release, minimal, and great community
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   by notthinking 17y ago

   Same, wrote one for an assignment in a couple of hours, wasnt remotely a good idea to use it in the real world thou