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No, it just means that Qt is valid C++, not that the two have equivalent semantics (which is necessary for Qt to be exactly C++ and not a bastardized version thereof, which is what we are debating). If I we’re wrong and you were right, the
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Oh, TIL I guess. Thanks for the correction.
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Pretty sure all of Netflix runs on AWS and I've got to think that's several orders of magnitude more traffic than Windows updates or xbl.
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Signals and slots compile into plain C++ functions. The input language (the unnamed Qt superset of C++) has a notion of signals and slots, the output language (C++) does not have any such notion. > I am saying that this point does not
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C++ has no notion of signals and slots or other metaobject utilities. Your editor cannot autocomplete those signals/slots like Qt Creator. Anyway, I encourage you to not get too hung up on this particular issue with Qt and consequently
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This misses my point. If I create a language and assign different semantics to the Python AST, an editor that supports Python does not meaningfully support my language. The syntax highlighting will work, but any semantic analysis will break
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As someone who loves the idea of a good cross platform GUI, there simply aren’t any. GTK and Qt are the closest, and GTK is garbage. Qt is awful, but manageable. You get to work in a bastardized dialect of C++ (that no editors understand sa
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by weberc2 7y ago
VS Code has not been snappy for me. Especially with large screen sizes and lots of widegets. For example, if I close the left-hand pane and shrink the window, performance improves considerably.
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by weberc2 7y ago
"systems programming" is not well defined. While you and I probably prefer a similar definition, comments that criticize TFA for not using our preferred definition are really boring. Let's just say that Go is a fine language
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitchens%27s_razor
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Yeah, if that figure includes the executable, then it's also probably including the whole runtime (scheduler, GC, etc) since Go programs statically link the runtime by default. In that case, 2MB isn't so bad (especially considerin
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by weberc2 7y ago
As others mentioned "systems language" isn't well defined. If you want to define a "systems program" as one with hard real-time requirements, then no, Go isn't a very good choice; however, the article defines i
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> It's also easy to underestimate the difficulty in mundane technologies. Take bread for instance; this is how you make bread: Grow a grass (cereal crop). Separate the seeds, dry them, and then shell them to get your grains. Now gri
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> They're two different approaches, one is quick and "dirty", the other is "enterprise", but the end result is the same: a website. I would say one is appropriate for simple CRUD websites and the other is appropr
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Moreover, the folks who cry "all news has bias!" to justify explicit propaganda miss the obvious point that bias isn't a binary proposition. A little bit of accidental bias is not the same as deliberately driving an agenda. R
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by weberc2 7y ago
Journalism aspires to minimize bias, and that's why people trust journalism as an institution (and why, lately, that trust is rapidly eroding). Using "journalism" to give your biases/agenda the air of objectivity is misl
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by weberc2 7y ago
Hard to say. Our whole team experiences it, there are a dozen related issues in the issue tracker, and the docker-cli and Go bindings work fine while docker-compose is timing out. Based on the issues we’ve had and those files in their issue
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It’s not even dependable for us on local setups; a “docker-compose up” that has to pull images will almost always throw an HTTP timeout exception from inside The Python client.
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I’m aware, but it’s irrelevant.
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I want to see generics and real enums (I.e., Rust enums, not C/Java enums) added to Go, but as far as it being unsafe or inefficient, these concerns are overblown for many apps. People who levy this criticism are often fine with Python
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There are other factors in engineering besides CPU. For many applications, CPU is the cheaper resource (e.g., compared to developer time / opportunity cost).
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That's fine that you see it that way; let's have a debate about that. Why do we punish people for being skeptical, for example, that discrimination is the principle cause for disparities in tech employment or the wage gap? Why is
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Most moderates are fine with consequences for racism/sexism/etc, but we object to willfully misinterpreting one's political opponents as espousing racism/sexism/etc in order to justify their persecution. It's t
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To your point, the left's treatment of Trudeau's blackface is an interesting case study.
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> these translations are still useful as a starting point, not a destination. This was the case for the Go compiler (automatic translation from C to Go), and it has worked out well in practice. There are still some vestiges, but it'
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by weberc2 7y ago
Good to know. I'll have to check them out. My ~2015 Lenovo touchpad is utterly abysmal.
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If that’s true, I haven’t found it when I’ve shopped for a laptop to install Linux onto. This wasn’t always the case, but right around the time of Windows 8 when everything needed a touchscreen and chromebooks were eating the low end of the
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I'm particularly interested in a world where wasm binaries replace (or supplement) containers (or even VMs?). I'm specifically imagining Kubernetes or AWS Lambda but with direct wasm execution (instead of wasm-in-container or wasm
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It matters a whole lot. There's lots of code written in various languages and it's often prohibitive to use it in your own project because making the languages speak with each other (especially if you have performance concerns) is
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> Imagine extensions for applications or databases, written in any language you want, with no ability to exfiltrate data How does Java preclude plugins exfiltrating data? Downvoters: I’m not trying to be sacrilegious; I genuinely don’t k

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