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   by robacarp 4y ago

   having now poked at the source code on github, yeah this is not at all maintainable by modern standards. it's the kind of code you're unable to modify until you memorize every last line and the whole problem domain.
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   by robacarp 4y ago

   I'm not at all worried that particle physics will slow down (...heh) because of this. It sounds like the one guy has been doing an incredible job of service maintenance over the years, sure, but these folks write software all the time.
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   by robacarp 4y ago

   > I have to somehow know that border-radius is supposed to be "rounded". Yeah I agree with you there. If you're writing tailwind you have to constantly have the tailwind docs site open.
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   by robacarp 4y ago

   Neat question, I've enjoyed the replies so far. I've built tons. Most of them don't stick for long. One that has is a file-cabinet organization tool - https://github.com/robacarp/place - it moves files i
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   by robacarp 7y ago

   > a popular gradually typed language that natively allows writing both dynamic and type-safe code, allowing quick prototyping and then gradual refactor to type safety. You mention it in your edit, but Crystal has been exactly that for me