LessDmesg

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by LessDmesg 6y ago
Another "IDE" written in some sort ofJavascript? Yeah, good luck with performance.
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by LessDmesg 6y ago
TIL Scheme is the only language that implements continuations.
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by LessDmesg 6y ago
Rust is not a C++ replacement, nor a C replacement. It targets its own niche (embedded, realtime, correctness-oriented). It's a totally different development culture. Zig, OTOH, is absolutely a C replacement.
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by LessDmesg 6y ago
Gentoo does.
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by LessDmesg 6y ago
There are whole different ways of life. For example, before the abundance of oxygen on Earth, the first bacteria lived on sulphur-based biochemistry. It was slow and inefficient, but better than being poisoned by that oxygen plague! Remembe
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
My compiler only supports C11, how do you compile C major?
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Both of those things were hoaxes by the Democrats. Pathetic power struggles to distract the public's eye from the real problems that ordinary people face. Who cares if some Russian hackers got some access to the DNC servers? That didn&
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
LBYL can easily be enforced by Maybe types, leaving exceptions for really exceptional things (which a nonexisting file definitely isn't). So we see how not having a real type system hurts and deforms a language in ways unrelated to typ
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Yet millions of people love what Trump does. And the celebrities that pledged to leave USA if he got elected somehow didn't follow on their promises. The real problem is that the country is polarized now, and neither side will accept t
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Flamewars are fun, you're not. Humans are fundamentally emotional beings.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
I think it's the dreams of possible job heaven. With an esoteric language that can be used for finance, you can not only grow your mental gonads ("it's even smarter than Haskell!!") but also possibly get a six-figure job
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Sorry, I don't need your permission. And I'm not being mean, I'm calling out a crappy idea for what it is. If more people did it, the authors of that language and people like them would stop wasting their time making stuff th
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
I think we need to separate inheritance trees (arbitrary depth of inheritance) from mixin/trait inheritance which has height = 2. The latter is a lot more useful in eg. games where objects are assembled from mixins like Legos. The form
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Ok, good to know. I was afraid that actual full-scale OOP was what saved the day, but it was unnecessary yet again.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Nope, that's not a class, that's a struct and a module with functions. Any method called as obj.foo(5) is really just a function foo with a hidden argument foo(obj, 5). Rust makes this architecture explicit with its structs and tr
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
By "I separated things out into classes", do you mean that you used the whole triad of inheritance + polymorphism + encapsulation?
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Let them have it, they certainly have fun reinventing wheels and dealing with dependency issues etc. That won't prevent a new WASM ecosystem from springing up. Not in the least because, as the article says, WASM is a sandbox not jusy f
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
An APL a day keeps the Python away, huh?
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
I really like this JS-free future we have ahead of us. I mean, I needed to format a date as text recently, and JS can't even do that without downloading some library... The sooner we'll be able to use real languages on the front-e
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
> JavaScript No thanks, we have Blazor now.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
What, C++'s spec constrains implementation of standard datastructures? This language has hit a new low for me.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
For those that want to understand what modern class-based OOP really is, there's a great analysis at https://wiki.haskell.org/OOP_vs_type_classes#There_is_only_o...
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Sorry, but I'm not the one trolling. Reading up on "Canon Cat", I find > It had a text-based interface without a mouse, icons, or menus sigh The Forth in space thing is just some drivers/firmware for spaceships. I.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
I have the same question for K aficionados as I have for Forth ones: what real-world, human-usable, important software has been written in it? A GUI framework, a web browser, a window manager, a text editor, etc. Anything? I'm asking b
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
They should debunk and ban traditional medicine as unscientific paleolithic drivel. Then there won't be a market for those components, and lots of animals, from pangolin to the rhinoceros, will feel better. As well as decreasing diseas
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
I was using it as an example. The fact that they pay poachers to supposedly heal their livers or joints or whatnot doesn't change anything: Chinese traditional medicine is still cruel, pointless and frankly based on primitive animistic
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
But this particular case was because these people believed in primitive witch-doctor stuff. If Americans believed the same, there would be many more deaths there.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
Screw C, really. Let this crappy old language die off quietly. Learn Zig (the best replacement for C) or at least Rust.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
After using Ubuntu then Debian, and briefly trying Arch, it is so much easier to manage packages on Gentoo than the alternatives. USE flags, package.mask and the slots system are indispensable. And you get freedom from systemd.
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by LessDmesg 7y ago
It doesn't work. As in, can't render some perfectly renderable sites correctly. It seems Microsoft is chronically bad at making browsers, even when using a good ready-made engine.

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