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by zerofan 10y ago
Rust did a nice job with algebraic data types. Haxe has a very similar approach, and I've loved it since I first saw it. I think this is a very elegant way to define data structures. I listed plenty of complaints about Rust in my ot
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by zerofan 10y ago
To me it's almost the opposite. I like C a lot, but I ended up compromising on C++11 because in some programs I need more features to keep the implementation clean. I pay the cost of a messy language (C++) when implementing my librar
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by zerofan 10y ago
Rush hour traffic is due to human drivers making bad decisions. They knee-jerk the brakes just in case, they rubber neck by accidents, they take too long to accelerate, they try to cut other people off from merging, etc etc etc... Computer
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by zerofan 10y ago
Taxis are usually disgusting too. I won't take a cab because I frequently feel like I need to shower after sitting in one. I rate Uber drivers almost exclusively by their cleanliness, which is usualy very good.
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by zerofan 10y ago
UTF-8 is a nifty compression scheme - like a Huffman encoding that doesn't require a table to implement, but the committee doesn't deserve any credit for that (unless Thompson and Pike were on the committee, which I doubt). Beside
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by zerofan 10y ago
Unicode is a terrible mess. I remember reading about it with enthusiasm in the nineties, but it didn't take long to realize the committee of designers simply punted on every difficult decision instead of making a stand. They dumped e
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by zerofan 10y ago
My last project saturated a cluster of computers for days at a time. Not everyone writes crud screens for day to day work, honest. Parallelism is about performance, and it seems contradictory to do parallelism well on top of a slow languag
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by zerofan 10y ago
Erlang is elegant and noteworthy, but you'll get more computation done in a single-threaded C program.
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by zerofan 10y ago
Is there some reason Erlang had to be slow for single threaded things? Mixed language programming isn't desirable for many of us. I suspect Erlang could be fast, with just a few changes, but it never will be.
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by zerofan 10y ago
If you think Rust is ready for high performance computing, I suspect you don't do HPC for a living and you haven't tried to do it with Rust. It's not just missing the needed libraries.
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by zerofan 10y ago
Call it emotional if you like, but I won't use a language that has an off by one error built into its specfication :-)
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by zerofan 10y ago
> I have mentioned in previous threads on the subject that julia's 1-indexed arrays don't matter much in practice because the generic APIs hide that fact most of the time. My guess is that most people who prefer zero-based feel