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by continuational 3d ago
I've been working on a typed, functional-imperative, full stack programming language with IDE support: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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by continuational 8d ago
What kind of setup do you have where implementing things is as easy as flipping a burger?
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by continuational 8d ago
Been coding since I was a kid, MSc computer science, into programming languages ( https://www.firefly-lang.org/ ). We tried a few agentic coding tools at work, but they didn't really help. Along came a project that requi
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by continuational 1mo ago
Well it's not like most companies can pay for freshly made software; most software today is made for a wide audience, bought frozen and reheated in the microwave. Maybe freshly prepared software made at home in a less-than-perfect mann
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by continuational 1mo ago
Been working on something like that for years: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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by continuational 1mo ago
It's kinda funny there is still software coming out whose security model is "constantly ask the user for permission, and hope they never make a mistake". It's been tried so many times before, and it never worked.
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by continuational 1mo ago
When you have a tradeoff between two parameters, which points dominate the others in the sense that you can't choose another point without getting less of one of the parameters.
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by continuational 2mo ago
Why ask GLM-4.7 instead of GLM-5.2?
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by continuational 2mo ago
If an alien lands on Earth and learns English, would you deem it non-intelligent if you can tell it apart from a human in conversation? I think we should consider slime mold intelligent, and realise that it's a spectrum. Path finding i
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by continuational 2mo ago
Maybe. School shootings happen every year in the US, yet guns aren't banned. Besides, banning open models would put ordinary US businesses at a disadvantage compared to the rest of the world.
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by continuational 2mo ago
The parent post is saying that the officer didn't show up for 20 years, with no burglaries in your neighborhood in between.
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by continuational 3mo ago
I do, and frankly I enjoy my day more when I don't feel like I'm being a jerk, even towards a robot. But mostly as part of a follow up message. I also think it signals that I was happy with that solution in the ongoing conversatio
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by continuational 3mo ago
Well, what if it "just" increased white collar productivity by 1.5x, what would that be worth?
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by continuational 5mo ago
Sure, but this is an example from the article, and pertains to sum types in general, not just Maybe.
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by continuational 5mo ago
I don't think so, where's the extra information in the Zig example? In Rust, which is arguably also a low level language, it looks like this: enum Option<T> { None, Some(T), }
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by continuational 5mo ago
Do you really prefer this: fn Maybe(comptime T: type) type { return union(enum) { value: T, nothing, const Self = @This(); pub fn just(the_val: T) Self { return .{ .value = the_val }; } pu
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by continuational 6mo ago
What's open about OpenRouter?
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by continuational 6mo ago
I'm working on Firefly, a programming language for full stack webapps: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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by continuational 8mo ago
To find slop in this submission, you don't have to look any further than the very first picture.
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by continuational 8mo ago
Got 50% in first try, the computer only made two guesses, one right and one wrong, and passed the rest.
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by continuational 9mo ago
Not long ago I was looking through programming language sites to figure out how to best introduce the language I'm working on. ruby-lang.com stood out with a text in a big font: Ruby is... Followed by a paragraph about what makes Ruby
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by continuational 9mo ago
A programming language for the web: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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by continuational 9mo ago
Sure, but one could imagine that there are people working at the supermarket who would also rather do personal stuff or go cycling. But there they are, serving you.
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by continuational 10mo ago
I think this kind of slop has negative value. It's unclear how much of the information in the comic is hallucinated, and the malformed code "for i = i1+|>" and nonsense text "(starts write hooks!" doesn't bo
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by continuational 10mo ago
But on Hetzner, you can usually get a dedicated server installed and ready tomorrow.
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by continuational 10mo ago
A few years ago I worked on TopShell, an attempt to reimagine the shell+terminal using functional programming: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell#readme It ticks some of the boxes, but tonnes of work would b
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by continuational 10mo ago
Thank you! Yeah, I think some of the newer frameworks really complicate dataflow. We're trying to keep dataflow clear, though it's a big design space given the distributed nature of webapps. In any case, if you take it for a spin,
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by continuational 10mo ago
Working on a programming language for webapps! https://www.firefly-lang.org/ Speed is not an optional feature on the web. The site above is written in Firefly, uses hydration, and scores 100% on PageSpeed Insights. The lang
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by continuational 11mo ago
Seems like we can join the club! https://www.firefly-lang.org/ is 218 kB uncompressed.
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by continuational 11mo ago
By requiring transparency? What's the actual problem here?

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