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by sk1pper 10y ago
I wholeheartedly agree it's easier to write clearer OO code after spending time writing in Clojure. But I think another drawback of cljs is readability. It's super cool that everything is data and data structures, but it makes it
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by sk1pper 10y ago
> I’m not even going to consider a system valid without managing IO in some way. So yes, all flavors of Lisp are off the table as well. We're talking functional in the context of JavaScript, I think ClojureScript deserves more of an
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by sk1pper 10y ago
IMO if money isn't an object, OS X is a better call when it comes to laptops. If money is tight, going for a Linux box is almost as good. Linux on desktops - as in, not a laptop - has worked pretty much flawlessly for me for >10 yea
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by sk1pper 10y ago
Right? I felt like it was so heavy-handed. There were so many small references in there to A New Hope, seems like they were trying to cater to viewers who were pretty familiar with the original movies already anyway. Ending with the shot of
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by sk1pper 10y ago
That's a super interesting perspective. After programming for many years I found Clojure pretty mind-bending, so definitely props for being able to pick it up. Clojure 100% made me a better programmer. I got pretty in to it for a while
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by sk1pper 10y ago
Don't skip K&R. Probably read both. They're both pretty short. A really, really good one is Advanced Programming in the Unix Environment. But, it's pretty expensive.
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by sk1pper 10y ago
Hah, and to add to the irony, the servers that host all of this stuff run an OS designed by a bunch of hippies.
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by sk1pper 10y ago
> a more stable language like Go, Rust, Clojure, or Elixir Uhhh..? A more trendy language? Are we really saying that Elixir is more stable than Python?