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601.
by usrnm 4y ago
I actually like it, it's a great idea. You wouldn't be surprised if you saw words like Köln or Malmö (or even Malmø) in an English text, right, so how is this different?
602.
by usrnm 4y ago
They were understood just as well 50 years ago, the problem is, all these disadvantages are long term. Short term profits always win
603.
by usrnm 4y ago
They were possible and widely used, but a lot less ergonomic. You "just" had to copy-paste some number of instantiatons for the number of arguments between 0 and, say, 50.
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by usrnm 4y ago
> In old C++ you had to spend all your time worrying about manual ctors That doesn't even make sense. Maybe you meant "destructors" but even then it has nothing to do with reality
605.
by usrnm 4y ago
Wasn't it used to avoid head of line blocking?
606.
by usrnm 4y ago
Conversion is the easy part, though. Now try to count the number of "characters" in a string. You will quickly realise that it's much easier to just reach for icu, or at least some parts of it
607.
by usrnm 4y ago
> Helix is built from the ground up around Tree-Sitter and LSP And what happens in ten or twenty years, when both are obsolete? I don't really care, what technologies my text editor is built on top of, but I sure would like to be ab
608.
by usrnm 4y ago
> it's exactly the same language or it's another Have you ever heard of python?
609.
by usrnm 4y ago
> it's debated whether "printing money" actually affects inflation The fed "printed" a shitton of money during Covid, dismissed all inflation concerns, and now, two years later, we're facing record inflation
610.
by usrnm 4y ago
You still need some way to be able to manage the system and have unrestricted access to admin stuff. Moving the problem to some other place doesn't really solve it
611.
by usrnm 4y ago
Destructors already are noexcept by default
612.
by usrnm 4y ago
> entry level <whatever> job -> senior <whatever> job (within a year or two) Do words even mean anything anymore?
613.
by usrnm 4y ago
> The C++ is absolutely ABI stable C++ ABI doesn't even exist, there are several competing standards (much fewer now than there used to be) and nothing is guaranteed even between different compiler versions, let alone different comp
614.
by usrnm 4y ago
> The other safe languages have explicitly taken the view the interop with C++ is bad It's not that it's inherently bad, it's just insanely difficult to do and, probably, isn't worth the pain. Carbon's approach t
615.
by usrnm 4y ago
Some of the biggest problems with C++ come from its backwards compatibility with C. Yes, it wins you users in the short term, but it's a pain to support as both languages evolve
616.
by usrnm 4y ago
It internally uses ucontext via Boost
617.
by usrnm 4y ago
I can assure you that everything you write is just as true for Yandex as it is for any other big tech company. Disclosure: used to work there.
618.
by usrnm 4y ago
> still blank Fair enough
619.
by usrnm 4y ago
Any half-decent IDE created in this century gives you both these features and much more. I remember selecting the type of the new project in Visual Studio 6.0 and getting either a console "Hello, world" or a full-blown GUI applica
620.
by usrnm 4y ago
> so far, none have actually happened https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akademik_Lomonosov Not without its fair share of criticism, budget overruns and all other problems associated with building new nuclear reactors
621.
by usrnm 4y ago
> If Ocaml had been designed in the USA it would have been widely successful I doubt that. There are plenty of American SML dialects and F# is about as American as it gets, but neither of these languages saw any commercial success.
622.
by usrnm 5y ago
> The puzzles are interesting but I'm not sure how much they overlap with the field of linguistics in general Same thing with programming Olympiads, but it isn't necessarily a bad thing
623.
by usrnm 5y ago
> Exceptions are a quiet revolution--they truly simplify the way you write code. Fashion cycles in general programming and programming language design are just as real as in any other human activity. And just as fun to watch.
624.
by usrnm 5y ago
If JavaScript frameworks taught us anything, it's that people tend to fall for "new and shiny" much more willingly, than for anything related to quality.
625.
by usrnm 5y ago
> They want to be taken care of That sounds overly simplistic and a bit rude. I want to do the work I like, which happens to be writing code, and I don't really care about the business, management or accounting. And the best way to
626.
by usrnm 5y ago
If you paid for it with your credit card, then it certainly is linked to your name. And not a lot of people use cash these days
627.
by usrnm 5y ago
Perforce?
628.
by usrnm 5y ago
In that hypothetical scenario, would you prefer humanity was left extinct? Culture can be recreated, or at least something new can be created in its place. If you're dead, that's it, you're gone
629.
by usrnm 5y ago
And you've just described a modern SaaS service
630.
by usrnm 5y ago
> Russia+Turkey+Germany I believe, in the context of this proposed ban "Europe" means "the EU", not geographical Europe. So both Russia and Turkey don't count.

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