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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   Correct me if I'm wrong, but I think WebGL is the most performant graphics pipeline available in browsers today. I'm hooked on SVG's promise of semantic graphics, but every time I tried building something with SVG in a browse
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   I don't remember how well it integrated with Bitwig - but a few years ago VST support on Linux using Wine, Jack and Carla ( https://github.com/falkTX/Carla ) was pretty solid.
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   > Python seems pretty popular. One reason it's so popular: even though it skips the actual curly brackets (thus making itself more accessible), it doesn't stray too far from the general syntactic paradigm of "curly-bracket
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   I've created this account with my very own purpose, what about you? It is to lurk less , and it's the first account that sticks because this time I remembered to whitelist HN in my cookie autodeleter. Nevertheless, it is you who
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   I would argue that even an esoteric, densely packed one-liner can still be more readable than the equivalent program spread out over a greater number of lines - simply because you can keep it all in sight at the same time and work through i
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   1. Most people who interact with a shell know how to make it run one command with arguments; some eventually learn about IO redirection. Many such people who use Bash as a "command prompt" would find the way it does even simple th
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   In absence of more accessible complexity measurements, line counts do matter somewhat. E.g. the briefer a program is, the more readable it is (last time I checked, brainpower and time is much more expensive than computing power and bandwi
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   I also tried coding without syntax highlighting but it only lasted a few months. One of the downsides is that when you show your code to other developers who don't have the necessary visual bandwidth, they get uncomfortable. One of the
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   by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

   Statically link ALL the things!
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    by w56rjrtyu6ru 7y ago

    People gotta realize that Node.js is actually excellent for this sort of task. It hits quite a few sweet spots as an all-round Unix scripting language: * Familiar syntax and semantics (Bash/Zsh/Fish/Csh/Ksh/Ash&#x2F