dieggsy

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by dieggsy 20d ago
tl;dr you just don't really do that. 99% of the time, you simply write the code or change in the sources first, then compile/run it in the runtime. If you're modifying the runtime directly at the REPL without having sources,
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by dieggsy 22d ago
I don't object to any of this. "Restart this system from initial state" is quite a bit more common than people imagine in CL. I was hinting at it perhaps being even more common than image-based development, though don'
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by dieggsy 22d ago
You may already know of these, but for others curious: I'm also not a huge fan of quicklisp, though bundles[0] made it a little more bearable for me. You may also consider vend[1], ocicl[2] (heavily AI-assisted recently), or qlot[3].
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by dieggsy 22d ago
As a Common Lisp developer, the intro about Lisp strikes me as sort of mostly (?) true. I would say in my experience we do actually "compile and execute" code, we can just do this incrementally and with less context switching bec
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by dieggsy 2mo ago
mine is a new IDE that's part of the Coalton project, but is meant to be used for Common Lisp as well: https://coalton-lang.github.io/mine/ I have not tried it, I'm an Emacs nerd.
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by dieggsy 2mo ago
Oh yeah, way more fun :) I just kinda saw CL in the Clojure and was trying to make it look like that.
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by dieggsy 2mo ago
For me, the most effective way to read Lisp is to essentially forget the parentheses (I shadow them out in matching, low contrast colors) and go almost entirely by indentation. I find this makes it more similar to reading other languages, t
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by dieggsy 2mo ago
CL also has pretty much arbitrarily extensible syntax: - https://sr.ht/~dieggsy/whisper/ - https://dieggsy.com/json-literals.html And could also be used to build languages, supporting more modern
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by dieggsy 3mo ago
I use emacs --daemon with emacsclient for this. I always have a running emacs instance, and connect with the client. Opening and quitting a client is near instant.
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Ha! I was going to disagree, but then I realized I force most monospace html entities to use a specific font in my browser (using a wildcard stylus stylesheet). This is quite nice to normalize things (and sidestep atrocious font choices) ac
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Not sure if humor, but this is meant to make a distinction with a non-human readable compilation target , many of which aren't, even when using high level languages.
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Just resubmit it, you'll probably get a new link. I get something different every time.
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
I love Wikipedia and think it's one of the greatest resources on the Internet, but there's absolutely a lot of bias in Wikipedia. Even within the same language, I think a lot of it has to do with how many people have or are contri
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
This is fun. Is it not checking for previously submitted URLs though? I can seemingly re-submit the exact same URL and get a new link every time. I would expect this to fill the database unnecessarily but I have no idea how the backend work
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Agreed. Because of this (and regardless), archive everything: https://web.archive.org/web/20260114140733/https://www.spark...
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
The top comment in the article mentions it, but chawan[1] is really quite neat. Many sites are still have their quirks (or may be broken), but I think it's the closest I've seen a text browser approximate a "real" browse
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
I love CHICKEN Scheme! Nice to see it mentioned. Though I think it's worth pointing out it compiles to something pretty far from handwritten C, to my understanding. I think this is true of both performance and semantics; for example yo
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Seriously. I do think people should spend enough time with bash or posix sh to be comfortable with it, but I'd recommend everyone at least just try fish. It's a lovely interactive experience out of the box with colors, completio
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
I think I mostly agree with the thesis here, but I actually liked the point in the title at face value, too. We need both, I think. I guess I'll be another annoying Lisp guy, but: > At this point, the right question to ask would be,
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
Gmail is a product, but the comment wasn't saying "Gmail the product deserves to be shamed... ", more like "the Gmail team/devs/company deserves to be shamed...", which is why the plural still made sense t
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
It's quite common in UK English (and maybe others, I don't know), to refer to "singular" or collective non-people entities (such as companies, I know Gmail itself isn't one) using the plural form of verbs. This isn&
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by dieggsy 8mo ago
I think you're not wrong, but it's not necessarily a problem? I might argue that's actually part of the main point the article is making. The software is already written in C, well understood and optimized in that language, a
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Freely giving software vs. perpetuating an ideology(dieggsy.com)
2 points by dieggsy 9mo ago|0 comments
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by dieggsy 9mo ago
I think I meant the same thing, but you said it much more clearly, thanks!
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by dieggsy 9mo ago
I'm not sure I'd say this is "the other way around"; Coalton strives to implement Haskell or ML-adjacent semantics (in the type system, for example) with Lisp syntax. "With" here meaning that it is both impleme
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by dieggsy 10mo ago
It seems okay to me to be upset with the system and also point out the specific wrongs of companies in the right context. I actually think that's probably most effective. The person above specifically singled out Google as a reply to a
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by dieggsy 10mo ago
https://web.archive.org/web/20251107024022/https://graydon2....
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by dieggsy 11mo ago
I found this, which looks like it's for an earlier version: https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2023-07-11-we-put-a-distributed... My eyes kind of glaze over as I read this but maybe it will be more helpful to you.
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by dieggsy 11mo ago
Are you by chance a Common Lisp developer? If not, you may like it (well, judging only by your praise of stability). Completely sidestepping any debate about the language design, ease of use, quality of the standard library, size of communi
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by dieggsy 1y ago
While that would certainly be a factor, I think I'd argue it's less about where you're from and more about what your interests or experience are. I actually think the title as it is now has more mass appeal; it's very ge

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