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by abeltensor 10mo ago
The article significantly misses the mark by treating Ruby as nothing more than Rails — a perspective that currently detracts from the language. The author clearly hasn't explored the strong features of Ruby 3. Not to mention, it&#x27
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by abeltensor 2y ago
Scoop is the main package manager I've been using for years on windows apart from chocolatey. Dunno many others aside from the official windows one: winget.
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by abeltensor 4y ago
Very nice. Nodes are great if you want a long running system along side your elixir app.
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by abeltensor 4y ago
Hmm, well Go itself has gone through a ton of revisions where the GC saw large improvements. And other languages coming up are experimenting with various types of GCs. Its really up to the use case though. With discord, I imagine a big re
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by abeltensor 4y ago
You are always going to have some kind of latency spike with a sweeping GC; even if that spike is tiny.
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by abeltensor 4y ago
The main issue with Go in this regard is that it generally doesn't have multiple ways of doing the same thing at least idiomatically. I mean sure, there are architectural choices you could make in a rewrite but the actual structure of
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by abeltensor 4y ago
I love Rust elixir Nifs. Gives you the best of both worlds to be honest. Highly fault tolerant code with fast computation. Only downside is that it can't really handle extreme crashes like a native process can.
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by abeltensor 5y ago
You've got alternatives like Flutter and ReveryUI which are both pretty solid for building cross platform applications without using web technologies or webviews. And you can always just use some of the other GUI toolkits that have bee
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by abeltensor 5y ago
WASN will always need some kind of javascript glue to interact with the DOM.
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by abeltensor 6y ago
tauri does use webview but its moving away from it in favor of a rust native solution called WRY.
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by abeltensor 6y ago
No revery is native. It doesn't use a webview at all; just uses the skia engine; basically a flutter competitor.
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by abeltensor 6y ago
Flutter is one that is moving in that direction.
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by abeltensor 6y ago
You are pretty much on the spot, its a library that directly interfaces with the existing browser engines on the user's computer.
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by abeltensor 6y ago
Disk space and Memory.
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by abeltensor 8y ago
Wish he had released the tooling. The REBL system looks a bit like the smalltalk virtual machine mixed with elements of Elm's time-traveling debugger. There has been a real need for serious error handling in clojure for a long time (s