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Rd: A port of mozilla/rr to the Rust programming language(github.com)
2 points by sidkshatriya 6y ago|1 comments
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
It’s very much possible to build a unikernel in rust. Google ‘rust unikernel’ and you’ll get results. In fact I would argue that rust is much more suited to write low level things like operating systems and unikernels than ocaml. Having sai
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
> > Look at the left sidebar... > Look at the Go language manual for comparison[1]. Go is simple (some would argue, simplistic) and there's a lot there too. Programming languages are complex beasts. "Number of things in t
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
It is an impression (possibly an unfounded/unfair one) and the whole point of my question is for others to give me their opinions. Nim is certainly a feature-full language. Look at the left sidebar on https://nim-lang.org&#x
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
I am ... confused by Nim a bit. Nim on the surface has a dream set of features: python like syntax, strong types, compilation to C, good garbage collection, good metaprogramming... OTOH there seems to be a rapid accumulation of features. Th
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
I’m aware they maintain forks and patches for many packages. However development resources are always precious! Now openbsd needs to devote them to backporting from rapidly evolving llvm. Effort that could have been spent elsewhere. Also no
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by sidkshatriya 6y ago
"FreeBSD 11.4-RELEASE Announcement [...] Some of the highlights: The clang, llvm, lld, lldb, and compiler-rt utilities as well as libc++ have been updated to upstream version 10.0.0. [...]" I found this int
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by sidkshatriya 7y ago
Zoom cloud meetings does seem to be on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/zoom-cloud-meetings/id54650530... Are you talking about something else or am I misunderstanding here?
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by sidkshatriya 7y ago
I am not convinced with your conclusion that metaprogramming does not make code less readable. My personal experience speaks otherwise. Metaprogramming has a lot of "magic" associated with it which makes code hard to debug and und
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by sidkshatriya 7y ago
Must this be a binary choice? Both effects are at play here. Politicians will often adjust their publicity stated views to match their electorate to be more electable. As the electorates opinions change over time, the publicly stated views
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Its a problem while debugging. The code has often been so transformed that it can be unrecognizable.
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
That is true. But some other models of concurrency (e.g. golang channels) _do admit_ static typing. This is a weakness of actor model adopted in BEAM. Its a tradeoff -- do you go with untyped BEAM concurrency or typed concurrency like in go
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Agree with the sentiment behind a lot of the comments above. Elixir/Erlang are awesome and there is a lot of vitality in those communities at the moment (more in Elixir perhaps). Elixir is definitely a darling of HN but there are some
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
That’s true for the astronomers who will use the results of the telescopes. But there have to be engineers, technicians and physicists on-site to ensure that the telescope is working well and producing the data that can be used by astronome
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
This an important and pertinent question. I’ve often wondered the same so I thank you for asking it. I find QT UI applications just a bit more consistent than GNOME ones. It’s a subjective impression...
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
I agree. A name sometimes conveys more information than a generic title.
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Interestingly when I relaunched Chrome and it auto-updated to Chrome 69 I am able to see the PDF without a problem. Not sure where the issue lies now.
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Opening the link in Google Chrome 68 shows the PDF front page momentarily and then the browser shows a blank screen. Is anybody else encountering this problem?
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Races occur due to internal program behavior that is different with exactly the same external inputs. In your packets example, if we were to feed the external inputs through a record/replay mechanism we could debug the multi-threaded p
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Thanks again for your detailed response. I was curious to know why you choose BEAM because Golang vs BEAM is often a genuinely confusing option. Thanks for your insights on NIFs. Additionally, as someone in this thread has already pointed o
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Thanks for your reply. The BEAM VM is amazing (and I'm a fan of Elixir) but I'm trying to see what benefit you're getting out of BEAM if you're using NIFs. Because the moment you use NIFs then your VM can crash (without
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Good point. Whats the point of using the Erlang VM if your NIF could bring down the whole VM. How is this different from using any other language like Go then to implement this platform? The approach confuses me because there is so much pra
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Thanks for your reply. Your response is extremely spot on. I agree that a type system will _not_ catch all errors, only some. My limited point was: it would be interesting to see statistically what % of time the ERTS (in real deployed produ
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by sidkshatriya 8y ago
Elixir Erlang/OTP are indeed a joy. Everything seems so organically put together and integrated! I love the OS-like feel of the platform. However, I'm curious: does the lack of types (both Elixir and Erlang are dynamically typed a
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by sidkshatriya 10y ago
Answered on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/PHP/comments/56txtv/dontbug_a_rever...
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by sidkshatriya 10y ago
Dontbug is a reversible debugger for PHP. Dontbug allows you to run PHP scripts forwards and backwards in the debugger. Practically speaking, you can step over/out backwards, step backwards, run backwards, run to cursor backwards, set
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Show HN: Dontbug Debugger – A reverse debugger for PHP(github.com)
12 points by sidkshatriya 10y ago|3 comments