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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
That isn’t a C-like language. Doing it in a statically typed low-level systems language is an unusual thing.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It isn’t a claim about the capabilities or features of Zig or any other language. I don’t see how it makes a big difference to the the reader. We are talking about the exact wording was of those advising Andrew to not do comptime and their
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The purpose was to pick interesting features to talk about and select one language for each feature which is a good exponent for that features. For instance I used Smalltalk to cover image based development: https://erikexplores.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Just commenting here as the author. Don't call people liars. Being wrong about something and lying are two very different things. I was writing that intro based on recalling Andrew Kelley stating in a video that he had been advised aga
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Author here, I cannot vouch for exactly the competency level here, but I was paraphrasing a remark Andrew Kelley made in a video discussing Zig. From what I remember he said that many told him that running code at compilation time wasn&#x27
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What Makes the Zig Programming Language Unique?(erikexplores.substack.com)
128 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|223 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Compile time code execution is implemented in a really neat way in Zig enabling anything from generics to meta programming.
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What Makes Lisp Unique?(erikexplores.substack.com)
33 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|12 comments
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Solar power generation hits EU record in energy crisis(ft.com)
7 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|3 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
As terrible as this crisis is perhaps this crisis is what will really kickstart the green transformation of our economies. Fossil fuels has exposed itself as an economic liability.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Having played with Zig I would say the tradeoff is complexity. Zig is harder to learn than C with more difficult concepts. Something like Go is much quicker. Yet I think Zig is finding an okay balance. You can still get productive much fast
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Yes
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Substack had 7 day free trial which can be canceled at any time
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
As the article author I want to point out that my aim is to popularize and present different angles on a variety of topics. I am not trying to do original research and thus I don't think it is fair to compare my writing to that. Also m
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I probably didn't understand you original point well, and I not sure I understand it still. The point was that competition between states spurred innovation. But of course if all those states are constantly on the verge of collapse the
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
There was stagnation after the fall of the Roman Empire while new states and systems were trying to establish itself. However the later medieval period was full of innovation. It was far more active in using machinery than Roman Empire and
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
I knew about that but didn't think to include it has it wasn't widely used and lacked many important components. Not just the ink. A key advantage of Gutenberg's alloy was that it neither shrunk not expanded. That is what gav
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Author here, they are conflated for good reason. The printing press is really an advancement of the movable type system developed in Asia. What Gutenberg did wasn't really about the screw press as I elaborate on here: https:/&#x2
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Author here, sorry about the paywall, I am trying to experiment with different ways of growing my readership and subscribers. You can get past the paywall by signing up for a 7-day free trial. It can be canceled at any time. If this really
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
That wasn't a constant thing though, and China despite being unified had far more bloody civil wars with more people dead. But sure Europe being fragmented did lead to more wars, which is bad. On the other hand those wars mean European
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It is a bit of a stereotype that nothing happened in medieval Europe and Greeks and Romans did everything. That is nonsense. Medieval Europe saw a massive increase in the use of mills and machinery, that never occurred in the Roman Empire o
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
Not really usable in Europe due to the climate. Chinese style paper really made a big difference.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The Song dynasty was not anywhere near an industrial age. China never went through a machine revolution with great proliferation of the usage of machines as in things like windmills, water wheels, clocks, trip hammers, screw presses etc: h
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The point of the article is to describe the printing press as an advancement of the technology of movable type. It is also important to point out that the press was really just one of many components that made the Gutenberg approach superio
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
You can read the rest of the article by signing up for a 7-day free trial. You don't have to be a paid member. The article isn't suggesting one language is superior to another, but that one printing technique was a superior to ano
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The simple workaround is sign up for a free 7-day free trial. You don't have to be a paid subscriber. It does get into discussing alphabets at the end.
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
It was because, Gutenberg did not invent movable type. That was already in use in Europe. A high chance that technology came from Asia. Hence Gutenberg took an exiting technology and improved it. Gutenberg did not invent the screw press. Al
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Why was western printing superior to Asian printing?(erikexamines.substack.com)
195 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|209 comments
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The Missing Chinese Mechanical Clocks(erikexamines.substack.com)
3 points by socialdemocrat 4y ago|1 comments
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by socialdemocrat 4y ago
The story is about how medieval Europe which was in many ways regarded as technological backwards could develop mechanical clocks in the 1300s while China, a far more advanced civilization, did not.

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