rainygold

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by rainygold 4y ago
I chose Elixir over Clojure simply because the web development story is better (in my opinion) due to the community rallying around Phoenix. I preferred the Lispiness of Clojure but all you have over there is Fulcro and Luminus, the former
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by rainygold 5y ago
LiveView sorta tackles the isomorphic web development side, and while I agree that Lisp is a better syntax you do have hygienic macros in Elixir as well.
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by rainygold 5y ago
Much to the detriment of the language imo, and he didn't help the feeling when he released 'Open Source is not about you'
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by rainygold 5y ago
Community can definitely play a role though I can't help but think that Phoenix and the proselytizing done by Jose and co are the main factors. Sure, we have Luminus in the Clojureverse but its just not as easy and straightforward as t
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by rainygold 5y ago
Feels like Elixir has stolen much of Clojure's appeal and 'thunder' as the niche pragmatic functional language.
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by rainygold 5y ago
I'm curious as to how you monetised the site? Your site would have been so useful when I moved to the city a few years back.
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by rainygold 7y ago
Ruby is soon getting type checking via Sorbet. Seems to be the trend nowadays.
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by rainygold 7y ago
Java moved to a six month release cycle and it has breathed new life into the ecosystem as a whole. Its one of the most robust and important languages out there. Java will likely never truly die because of legacy applications. It's als
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by rainygold 7y ago
I guess a question for you would be why should someone choose a Node / full JS stack over Java Spring, or Django etc?
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by rainygold 7y ago
Reading that someone else had this opinion of TBP is so valididating. The book receives much hype but the characters are weak and forgettable.
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by rainygold 7y ago
Anything .Net can be replaced by Java.
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by rainygold 7y ago
Why vscode?
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by rainygold 8y ago
I think you have the Fireplace plugin for Vim but yeah Emacs for any Lisp is a no-brainer.
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by rainygold 8y ago
You can also use Actors and elements of the OTP from Erlang in Clojure via certain libraries.
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by rainygold 8y ago
Glossing over the numerous articles and he's clearly an intelligent fellow. I can't follow even half of the concepts.
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Janet is a Lisp for scripting, or embedding in other programs(janet-lang.org)
3 points by rainygold 8y ago|0 comments
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by rainygold 8y ago
How does this compare to Sailor?
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by rainygold 8y ago
Is Fuchsia considered to be Unix?
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by rainygold 8y ago
So basically AppImage is the standard we ought to be using?
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by rainygold 8y ago
No. Reason would be the closest you can get without using OCaml itself.
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by rainygold 8y ago
How do you find OCaml to be a more practical language? Interested in trying it out.
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by rainygold 9y ago
Yes this was the point I was trying to make. It is the status quo. That can only be good for business.
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by rainygold 9y ago
If anything, investors will be encouraged to invest in China due to this news. Xi has been a stable leader for the country. This news simply means more of the same.