rienbdj

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by rienbdj 7y ago
There was windows phone, but the market wanted apps!
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by rienbdj 7y ago
interesting idea. the fact that I have never encountered one of these in use suggests that they don't work well enough.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
In C++ they can be copied.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
I wish the pipeline operator were standardised so we can stop fiddling with prototypes.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
The process of generating the WASM is entirely different. C, C++ and Rust all generate x86 assembly but they have very different trade offs. Following this line of reasoning writing raw WASM would also be a fine choice!
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by rienbdj 7y ago
This argument is a bit... tired. There are genuine advantages to different technologies and we should explore them. Every article about rewrites (not only Rust) is met with this sort of comment and it is counter productive. If someone is cl
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by rienbdj 7y ago
This a true, but the advantage is probably more than offset by the relative cost of JS vs Rust developers. You can also add Flow types. A single threaded environment does not yield the usual advantages of the Rust borrow checker.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Unless you use GraphQl of course!
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Why not a C++ library with an optional C API?
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by rienbdj 7y ago
If you allow early returns in a loop then loops are no longer expressions.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
You're right, but there's another concern: who maintains the software? The original developers forming a company that supports development is not possible if the company is not protected by the license in some way.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
If you want an object with a few getters and setters, just make a class. This proposal is to remove the boiler plate of creating immutable objects with value semantics.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Is this also true within a country? Does Wales (for example) pull down GBP for the benefit of the rest of the UK?
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Switch to a language that emphasises functional programming (F#, Clojure, OCaml, etc) and it will happen naturally.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
people have done this rules_cc_foreign or something like that.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Perhaps, but Harvard diplomas are valuable because they are scarce.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
This article talks more about what a great puzzle game is and less about how to design one. it's a bit disappointing!
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Make (to use your example) does not do any sandboxing to ensure that the declared dependency graph is actually correct. This is the big innovation in Bazel (and Co).
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by rienbdj 7y ago
In theory, C and assembly will give you the fastest possible implementation. However, in practice, we're just not smart enough to write this code without introducing bugs. High level languages allow us to specify what we want the progr
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by rienbdj 7y ago
I don't see how build2 can be in the same spirit as Bazel when it misses the main advantage of Bazel
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Not quite. The article claims that the health of various organs affect each other. Is it really so obvious that cardiovascular health improves the brain?
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Not quite, because D brings many other things. I mean something that is equivalent to C++, with all of the same semantics, but a less ambiguous grammar.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Can we design a language (cpp-prime?) that is basically c++ but makes parsing easier? I'm thinking reduce the keyword reuse, use different symbols for multiplication and pointers etc. The code would be easy for c++ developers to read a
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by rienbdj 7y ago
The fact that instructions are even required shows how poor the state of c++ packaging is.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
you have a very narrow idea of what creating is. non programming tasks don't require low level system access.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Not really. In bitcoin one chain is considered the truth, and this may change with chain length. in git, all branches are the truth.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
This kind of place orientated programming can make the actual algorithm very hard to follow. I really hope that JS gets custom value types in the future.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Formal differences don't capture how awkward something can be to use. For applied programming this matters. Maybe I can do functional programming in Java, but if it's much more verbose than Haskell and the type checker occasionall
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by rienbdj 7y ago
Sadly C# is still missing a few important ML features that making functional programming more difficult than in a true ML.
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by rienbdj 7y ago
the provider is still not free to wait out the buyer in a competitive market because another provider can swoop in and make the deal. in you price gouging example prices are high because demand is so much higher than supply, but goods still

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