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by vi4m 2y ago
I'm a bit confused about the "don't trust Apple" sentiment here. Swift has been working seamlessly with Linux and Visual Studio Code for years now. You might be surprised to learn this, just like this guy was https:&#x2
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by vi4m 2y ago
Just've bought one. Will tell you in 2 weeks :->
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by vi4m 2y ago
It’s not dead but nearly dead. The question is why they focused on DEI, weird social activism so much and not on engineering itself. Look at SQLite. SQLite is notable example where they don’t even have CoC(!) and focus only on getting engin
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by vi4m 2y ago
Wrong. Apple officially provides: * linux, windows and wasm compilation targets. They hired the maintainer of wasm project as well. * LSP language server for Swift, to power VSCode and others editors, even though, they use Xcode that doesn&
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by vi4m 3y ago
Really something we needed. Swift has such low memory usage, that it's an order of magnitude easier on resources, than those Electron wrappers. At the same time, it gives what you loved about React - expressiveness for UI. I wrote
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by vi4m 3y ago
Interoperability is about practicality and performance cost. I think Swift is quite practical and efficient in this regard - from day 1 it has near-zero C-lang integration costs, and now it has C++ support. Also, https://github.c
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Raspberry Pi 400 running Swift microservices(marcinkliks.pl)
2 points by vi4m 6y ago|0 comments
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by vi4m 7y ago
Looks like very nice use case for Property Wrappers demonstration.
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by vi4m 7y ago
> there's no good and easy option to backup your phone other than iCloud. Just plug your phone, click "Backup up". You don't even have to open iTunes anymore, just open "Finder" window. Can't be easier
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by vi4m 10y ago
Until you try to do first presentation on some conference, when your connected display crashes and you start typing xrandr / fighting Wayland/xorg drivers ... I see it all the time, never happened to Macs.
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by vi4m 10y ago
SSD in Macbook Pro is crazy fast. So fast that finally, after many years, we can think about "replacing" RAM with it. LPDDR3 RAM speed = 17 GB/sec, SSD read - 3 GB/sec. As much as it sounds crazy, i believe, SSD will eve
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by vi4m 10y ago
No.
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by vi4m 13y ago
No. Just no. Market will regulate itself without a collusion.
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by vi4m 14y ago
No. Just simply wrong article.
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by vi4m 14y ago
Maybe it's just me, but I don't like theese cool presentations filled with expressive words 'DO IT!', 'NEVER DON'T DO THAT' "bitches" "programming motherfuckers". It's funny, but not for 100th time. Another example are pictures, or memes pa