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by pathsjs 10y ago
There is a (very minimal) HTTP server in the stdlib. It can be used for very quick prototyping. It can easily be wrapped in a more usable API, for instance I have made mine: https://github.com/andreaferretti/rosencrantz
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by pathsjs 10y ago
In Nim, each thread has its own heap :-)
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Well, I am actually a mathematician. I knew cateogry theory well before I was even able to hack a web page with php and jquery. :-) And still, I find that most of the abstractions that appear, say, in Haskell have little mathematical conten
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by pathsjs 10y ago
That has really little to do with mathematics...
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Did you really create an account just to say this?
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Nim is statically typed, very similar to python syntax-wise, fast and with trivial c interop. This makes it a good target for scientific programming, although unfortunately there are not many libraries yet http://rnduja.github.io
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by pathsjs 10y ago
The worst way to end a chapter is "in this chapter we have seen...". Unfortunately that seems to common in programming texts, for whatever reason
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by pathsjs 10y ago
The experiments were conducted by invoking spark with flags --master local[1] This means running on a single core. Not really a fair comparison with the Julia multithreaded or multiprocess version
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by pathsjs 10y ago
If the solution to packaging is "I'll use docker", i.e. I will need essentially an entire OS as a dependency of my application, this shows that Python packaging is broken. More sane packaging system allow to define dependenci
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by pathsjs 10y ago
A union type in Nim can only be used in funciton arguments, and it does the obvious thing: when you actually call the function, it specializes to the type you are calling with. Think about templates in C++, where the type parameter can only
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Nim fits everything you ask, except for "can target GPUs via LLVM or SPIR-V". Even that may eventually be fixed by having OpenCL C as a compilation target. Also, I am not sure what you mean by "first class SIMD structures&quo
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Shameless plug: I have been proposing this approach for long. I found that the missing piece is how to generate the actual geometric information starting from data, hence I wrote a library to this effect https://github.com/a
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by pathsjs 10y ago
How does one actually... well, display the presentation? (without the markdown on the side)
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by pathsjs 10y ago
In Scala and in Factor too! ;-)
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by pathsjs 10y ago
In any case, I do not want to sound too critical. I would be happy to see a lighter syntax for Rosencrantz - I just do not know how to do it while preserving the composability of handlers. If you have any proof of concept of how it might wo
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Hi jboy, thank you! :-) The problem with the syntax you propose is that it does not compose well. For instance, in the example you give, `path`, `get` and `ok` are all handlers, but they appear in very different roles syntax-wise. It is not
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Of course template can return values. The problem is that they need to be given the AST. What if one constructs a handler somewhere in another module (say an authentication handler) and you import it? How can you reuse it, considering that
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by pathsjs 10y ago
The problem with this approach is that it would be difficult to make handlers first-class. What if your post routes are a handler imported from another module? Templates would allow for the syntax you present, but do not combine.
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by pathsjs 10y ago
I wrote Rosencrantz because I do not like the Jester API very much. Jester, like many other frameworks, hardcodes exactly what to do with a Request - say parsing the headers, parsing the form if the content type suggests so, always return a
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by pathsjs 10y ago
What would you suggest instead? Routes are naturally nested, and overloading [] seemed the best choice
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by pathsjs 10y ago
> If it's divisible by a number, the number must appear in its factorization and vice versa. By writing "its" factorization, you are already assuming that there is only one
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Videogame engine developers do not need advanced mathematics
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Yes, I also wanted to add your library, but I was not sure how it works and to what degree it uses metaprogramming. But I am glad that you mentioned it! :-)
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Other examples of things one can do with metaprogramming: async/await http://nim-lang.org/docs/asyncdispatch.html#async , pattern matching http://andreaferretti.github.io/patty/ , for/do
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Except when you want to add a dependency. Then things will not look nearly that simple...
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Where do you find Esperanto inconsistent?
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by pathsjs 10y ago
Not quite. It also has a very regular grammar, handles regular composition of words (skribmaŝino, bovido, ...), regular formation of words like [nowhere, someone, whatever], simplifies the formation of verb tenses (also handling things like
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by pathsjs 10y ago
I find docker increasingly complex and frustrating, at least for the pretty common use case of isolating dependencies for development. See vagga for an example of simplicity. There you have no daemon, no file permission conflicts, a simple
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by pathsjs 10y ago
I completely agree with the sentiment. And this is why such a statement made by antirez leaves me puzzled. I admire Redis for its performance and simplicity of setup, but if there is one thing that Redis does not have is a coherent API. Whe
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by pathsjs 10y ago
I tried it. I found no easy way to have dependencies isolated per project. Any suggestions?

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