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by sifoobar 8y ago
Thank you, that would have helped. Still, it's just too many layers of complexity for my taste. Nailing performance problems in C is a Sunday walk in the park in comparison. Live and let live, I was just sharing my experience of going
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I would be very, very careful about assuming that any observed behaviors are fundamentally human. Leave people alone to do their thing and you would get an entirely different set of behaviors. There's no question that the internet ampl
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by sifoobar 8y ago
No harm done; I'm doing this with or without, because it has to be done.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I practiced Chinese once a week for two years, unfortunately never got a chance to use it since so it's been aging badly. The thing that many seem to have issues with when it comes to speaking/understanding Chinese is that the ton
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Right, if the discussion isn't going your way you can always side track by making up faults and projecting agendas. How is this helping us go anywhere worth going? I was talking about std::shared_ptr, which is the closest thing to refe
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I found The Humane Interface by Jef Raskin illuminating back in the days, if my memory serves most of the content is just as relevant today. Edward Tuftes books also contain plenty of wisdom and examples of good design.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
STL smart pointers are all fun and games until you start using threads, at which point you realize that automagically flipping the (now atomic) counter back and forth behind the scenes every time the pointer can't be safely passed as a
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I have the same experience from implementing an interpreter [0] in C++ and later rewriting from scratch in straight C. The popular advice to use C with classes and skip the rest doesn't hold, for me it always turns into a constant loos
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Show HN: Snigl – Forth with a Lisp in C(gitlab.com)
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Low-quality babies? Wow. Because they don't meet your standards? They're human babies, and there is no such thing as a low quality human; though people like you sure come close enough.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Yep, more or less. Though if you flip through Snigl's README, there's already plenty in there that these languages will never be able to do. I used to do that in Common Lisp, which has the only FFI I've come across that'
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Sure, I've played around with it; still too complex and too static due to being natively compiled. I've mostly given up on the idea of driving applications from a higher level language, I much prefer having C as a foundation and t
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Lua has fibers? I thought they settled on throwing coroutines over the fence, which is very much not the same thing even though you can sort of build fibers using them. I'm pretty sure Wren's fibers aren't integrated with the
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Sure, I played with Erlang back in the days. Preemptive kills the whole idea, which is why you can't share values. And it's probably the least integrated language I've come across.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I've been working on one of my own that attempts to bridge some of the gaps between Forth and the rest of the world, feel free to take her out for a spin: https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Harder in other languages except Forth. While creating DSLs is easy enough in Lisp, Forth is more of a DSL construction kit than a programming language. Which is why there are roughly as many dialects as implementations.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Why? You really only need the C library to be able to pass a data pointer to the callback, and most do. This sounds like a native compiler perspective to me; with pure VM fibers like Snigl's these are not issues. It's not about di
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Another win for embedded languages/inside-out FFI in my book, since controlling the outside world (C in Snigl's case) makes it trivial to register a trampoline with whatever state needed to deliver the call.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I'll take fibers that yield automatically on blocking operations over async/await most days for most tasks. It's slightly less flexible, since you can only wait for one async action at a time per fiber; but a pleasure to use
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Show HN: Snigl – a Forth with a Lisp in C(gitlab.com)
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by sifoobar 8y ago
They have a lot in common, and there's no reason you can't have a bit of both at the same time: https://gitlab.com/sifoo/snigl
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by sifoobar 8y ago
But it is, alcohol is very poisonous; which is why you feel like shit and loose your memory when you overdo it, and why it's so hard to hit just the right amount of poisoning to feel funny without feeling sick. Drinking poison that tas
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Keep telling yourself that then, it's not really my problem. Or try quitting for six months and see how the body reacts to alcohol when reintroduced.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Oh, I've drunk more quality beer than most. Stop for six months and try again if you don't believe me, once the body has detoxed it's going to start putting up a fight. I can't even smell alcohol these days, even at the
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by sifoobar 8y ago
There are better, less poisonous and destructive, drugs. Is it really worth sacrificing your health for? It doesn't even taste nice once you cut through the cultural programming to pretend otherwise.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
The internet in a freaking nutshell, I'm so not going to miss that part once this pile of crap tips over.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
I once spent two weeks in hospital with a smashed vertebra waiting for operation. I'm sure many of the individuals involved are trying their best, but it definitely feels more like a place for dying than a place for healing.
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by sifoobar 8y ago
Nah. There will always be missing values, no matter how many layers of safety measures we wrap around the fact. Hitting a NULL in C is very unforgiving; but that's just the spirit of C, there are plenty of ways to provide a less bumpy
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by sifoobar 8y ago
My best experience so far was being hired to do real, paid work remotely and then invited to discuss the solution and further plans. I don't do challenges any more, life is too short to waste solving problems that don't exist for
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Show HN: Snigl – a Forth with a Lisp in C(gitlab.com)
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