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by s6ro 3y ago
As a sucker :-P for actor based systems was immediately reminded of Pony ( https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony )
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by s6ro 3y ago
I used to love C++, template wrangling :-P aah, but pretty much gave up after C++11. Right about the time when Scott Meyers also said: "enough" (paraphrasing). My biggest issue for giving up was the ever growing list of "don&
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by s6ro 3y ago
Developers have control, if text is selectable or not. https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...
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by s6ro 3y ago
A short (35 min) overview of BEAM and why it is not like other VMs: JVM, Node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4_Wlq8JeI
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by s6ro 3y ago
This "delightful" experience is not just Amazon. Its what happens when large tech. companies play "who blinks first". Apple has a fair share of blame here, with their cut of 30%/15% from digital content they did not
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by s6ro 3y ago
Elixir is functional and immutable first, (and structs) - that alleviates somewhat the pain of not having a strong type system. I really like the architecture of OTP, but I still find myself using Elixir in anger. Especially, if I'm tr
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by s6ro 3y ago
Ah memories... I once had 100K Python 2.x codebase to maintain. No docs, no tests and then being required to add features. Had to use the debugger[1] to make sense of the codebase and types, formats etc. Sheer madness and such a waste of t
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by s6ro 3y ago
Same for me, learned to properly touch type with my language layout and with the help of notches on 'f' and 'j' to help me find home row. Being able to keep my eyes on the screen while typing catches a lot of mistakes. W
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by s6ro 3y ago
I found it rather annoying that you cannot organise your code to be readable from top-to-bottom in a file, going from the big picture to finer details. Which, I think is much easier for humans.
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by s6ro 4y ago
If anything, the article proves that when you want performance don't use Node.js - or more generally, abstractions have a cost. The actual library, as already pointed out, is written is C/C++ and bypasses Node for everything, othe