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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I have and I did kind of like it but ultimately admitted to myself that I no longer want to use too niche or too new PLs. Elixir has a fairly solid ecosystem at this point and I am only going to switch to something even bigger (I already us
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I don't see how the latter follows from the former? The former is much bigger and more abstract; syntax is just one of the vehicles to try and codify it. F.ex. if you have an universal construct of green threads / fibers then 7 PL
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I mean runtime guarantees and features. In this case: effortless / near-invisible concurrency and parallelism. As mentioned, I did like Clojure. I'd switch to it if it was running inside the Erlang runtime (like Elixir does).
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
If they are, I have not heard about it (which does not mean much, I check Java once a year). And if they really are then I'd give Java a serious look again because it's a mature ecosystem that was gimped by ancient runtime decisio
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I agree Golang is a worse version of OTP, no question about it, but if you are not allowed to code in Erlang/Elixir/Gleam (which sadly is 99.9% of the projects on the planet) then Golang is the next best thing. It has footguns, su
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
With respect, this topic in particular has been beaten to death. I too liked Clojure when I tried it some years ago (agreed on the composition and data structures; both are _great_). But the real value-add is in the runtime, not the syntax.
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
That's completely fair and that would be my process exactly, if not for one thing -- fan noise. I really _hate_ laptop fan noises. That's why a Macbook Neo will win for me when I get to travel more. Hopefully the world will produc
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
How is its fan noise?
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
Point me at a laptop as small and quiet. Hell, let's forget weight. I'll gladly lug around 2.5kg machine if it almost never turns its fan on and is as compact. Actually let's not care about compactness either. Can go up to 17
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
> Once you realise that SQLite is just an aggregated view over this log it calls into question if you needed a third party query engine at all, suddenly the whole NoSQL vs SQL debate becomes a meaningless implementation detail. You are
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
I would love to read your analysis somewhere. It's a current interest of mine, both hobby and professional -- and limited to Elixir, Golang and Rust -- and I'm still slowly scoping the landscape. Recommendations for good engines?
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
MacBooks are still unbeaten hardware-wise. Yes 8GB of RAM is embarrassing, no question about it. I'll buy a Neo just for travel. I will remote to my machines with it. Though I'm flabbergasted why has nobody else made as thin and l
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by pdimitar 4mo ago
You hiring?
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> x86 is on the way out in for most consumer devices. Define "consumer devices"? I am holding on to my AMD Ryzen machines until they literally fall dead. I have no complaints from them. Maybe some modern or even next-gen ARM
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Is the fan turning on often? Is it very loud? From my research on Macbook alternatives only the Zenbooks looked like almost-an-even-match to me. Curious what's your experience with day-to-day fan noise and heat.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I use Claude Opus 4.7 on max thinking inside Claude Code and I gotta tell you, as context of the project grows, it starts slipping. No amount of whipping and cursing has helped. Currently looking to start making my own hooks setup so it can
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
If C# can get them then Golang can get them as well! Come on Gophers! It's time.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Iran is also playing a PR war lately, playing the victims of the big bad USA. They IMO embarrassed themselves hugely by shooting missiles and drones at their neighbors; not sure they'll want to also try to sink (literally) a new way fo
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I'd have sympathy if: - This was not mostly (if not fully) an AI-generated text; - Had a clear problem statement. Why would you burn money on $17 - $50 bounties? In the hopes that you'd collect $30 at $5.68 spend? You can literall
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Thank you. The problem with new OTP releases is that usually there's a X.0.1 release shortly after because something was broken. At least it was that way with 28. I'll wait a few weeks.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Do you have a list?
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Yeah, you are sadly right. Took me a long time to stop being a doormat. Not sure I am nailing it even now to be honest, but I am doing _much_ better compared to two years ago.
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
> 1.) What do you have to be doing, daily, weekly, to be happy? Be more in nature. I am in a tight metropolitan area and I hate my immediate surroundings. I've seen our multiple parks many times and I am not impressed. I'd pr
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I envy your bubble, and I am not being snarky or vile here -- 100% honest. My education and experience matter exactly squat. And have not ever mattered in my 24 years of career. I know I've done a lot of things wrong but I can't s
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Well, I am upset. But -- bubbles. My health has been in decline for years and I am very slowly making some strides. Missed on a million networking opportunities by being unable to go to conferences and... yeah, I'll not turn this int
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Thank you, that's great. Back when I worked with Java this was but a pipe dream. Glad that they got to it!
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
You are reaching and trying too hard to find bogeymen where they don't exist, that's my conclusion. Be more awesome, dude. :)
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
My comment history? The very same one that keeps trying to extract out the location of those supposed Rust zealots and never even getting a single response except yesterday... and the linked comment was pretty mild? But I always get downvot
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
Also yeah, serves me right for trusting my phone's keyboard. :( Editing the comment out now, thanks for pointing out the typos!
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by pdimitar 5mo ago
I actually have not, for real. And I keep getting beaten up here on HN just for daring to say it. Makes you think who is who in this situation. Bullies screaming they are the victims.

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