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Jolt: Clojure on Chez Scheme(yogthos.net)
2 points by ephaeton 2mo ago|1 comments
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by ephaeton 2mo ago
Interestingly, previously submitted two months ago as " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414519 " Jolt: Clojure Interpreter on Janet. So it seems the clojure interpreter has both sapped down to chez, and been
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by ephaeton 7mo ago
having less addresses than humans is a feature that gets broken by IPv6. IMO, there ought to be less globally valid IPv4 addresses (say, a kilo less or so, maybe even a mega. We probably could even do with a giga less if you're willing
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by ephaeton 8mo ago
time to try guix again! Let's see ... hey, let's install inside an arch nspawn on arch. Oh no, builds won't complete. Can't mount a proc directory. Doesn't matter if root or not, with or without systemd-nsresourced,
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by ephaeton 8mo ago
same here. This thing is gold for "80% solutions" in that respect. It's easier to sanely integrate with legacy transport protocols than trying to update the legacy code base to implement mutual trust the harder, more direct a
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by ephaeton 11mo ago
To my surprise, in Librewolf this was also enabled. To how much effect, I wouldn't know (I hadn't noticed any shenanigans, then again, I just updated my librewolf and don't know if that brought it in).
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by ephaeton 1y ago
Do I read slowly if this is scrolling too fast for me? Oooph. "If this scrolls too fast for you, you're getting old!", hehe
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by ephaeton 1y ago
at "build time", the default language's build tool, a zig program, can reach anywhere and everywhere. To build a zig project, you'd use a zig program to create dependencies and invoke the compiler, cache the results, cre
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by ephaeton 1y ago
I feel that's such a red herring. You can @setEvalBranchQuota essentially as big as you want, @embedFile an XML file, comptime parse it and generate types based on that (BTDT). You can slow down compilation as much as you want to alrea
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by ephaeton 1y ago
> Personally, I find the idea that a compiler might be able to reach outside itself completely terrifying (Access the network or a database? Are you nuts?). What is "itself" here, please? Access a static 'external' so
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by ephaeton 1y ago
zig's C compat is being lowered from 'comptime' equivalent status to 'zig build'-time equivalent status. When you'll need to put 'extern "C"' annotations on any import/export to C, it&#
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by ephaeton 1y ago
well, the lisp family of languages surely can do all of that, and more. Check out, for example, clojure's version of zig's dropped 'async'. It's a macro.
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by ephaeton 1y ago
zig's comptime has some (objectively: debatable? subjectively: definite) shortcomings that the zig community then overcomes with zig build to generate code-as-strings to be lateron @imported and compiled. Practically, "zig build&q
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by ephaeton 2y ago
yeah, machines of different endianness, and, ideally, different alignment requirements. Always wanted to get an alpha, as well. Had hpux / hp300 ?, sparc, sparc64, 386, x86_64, maybe another arch. This was in 2005'ish, mind you. I
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by ephaeton 2y ago
I dearly remember setting up NetBSD on various sparc stations and ultra sparcs (a II, and an Ultra 60) and running them alongside a set of various other RISCs and CISCs of late 90s. Based on the paper 'attack of the lemmings' (IIR
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by ephaeton 2y ago
I suppose: Sometimes things work fine with the implicit default value that you end up with. So this will cause problems when you forget to initialize values to expected sane defaults.
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by ephaeton 2y ago
To me, Rust feels as if it had sprung from the same mind. Or in the case of C++, set of minds. Who have a common mindset. I sadly don't critize rust's general design choices constructively. It's more of a public realization,
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by ephaeton 2y ago
I'm sharing sentiment. C++ feels like a language of bean counters. Rust feels like a language of bean counters. A lot of C++ folks I know went over to rust. They were happy with C++ and it was the best thing since sliced bread. They ar
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by ephaeton 2y ago
loving he goes 'int main() { ... }' and never returns an int from it. Even better: without extra error / warning flags the compiler will just eat this and generate some code from it, returning ... yeah. Your guess is probabl
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by ephaeton 2y ago
That explains very well why rust (to me) feels like C++ommitte-designed, thanks for that!
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by ephaeton 2y ago
Thanks for the feedback. Yeah there's fixed geometry due to time constraints. Glad you could make it work for you eventually!
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Show HN: Race Timing with Integrated Replay(storytiming.racing)
25 points by ephaeton 2y ago|2 comments
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by ephaeton 2y ago
Wow, I never knew these deficiencies from gooops. This seems to me like a 'scheme with classes' mindset implementation of CLOS. Given the success of C++ and the like, surely there'll be enough people to productively use this.
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by ephaeton 2y ago
On the cost of ditching that vi muscle memory.
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by ephaeton 2y ago
"Maybe I should fork the compiler and do it myself. Urgh. So many projects. If I could live a million lifetimes, I'd devote one to working on compilers." -- Maybe you are living a million lifetimes in parallel right now and t
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by ephaeton 2y ago
Congratulations! It's so interesting to witness how "techniques of the past" make a grand return in "new" programming languages that "gained" features from 4 to 7 decades ago to support this programming st
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by ephaeton 2y ago
looks like a great TOC, sadly no preorder to support its creation :(
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by ephaeton 2y ago
awesome, thanks! And thank you for the invitation to a conversation, I'll take it up!
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by ephaeton 2y ago
Thank you! And I absolutely understand you gotta start somewhere. Music recommendation is HARD. A lot of people don't think they like didgeridoo (which is where my expertise lies) until they hear a live performance of contemporary didg
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by ephaeton 2y ago
Thanks for your input! I've pondered on and off about distrokid (or the like), and thankfully one of my peers has done just that. Mind you, he is more established and "successful" (as in, gets more paying gigs, more audience,

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