mathverse

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by mathverse 9d ago
Basically lack of polish. Nim's compiler just keeps evolving around unfinished and unpolished ideas never reaching a momentum. It's a research project of its BDFL and he is alienating the most senior developers and contributors to
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by mathverse 1mo ago
And yet I dont see any Flutter macos apps at all.
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by mathverse 1mo ago
Nim could do better with more than just 1 or 2 brilliant developers
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by mathverse 1mo ago
For small apps I use exclusively SwiftUI for anything more complicated I use a combo of Sciter and Swift (courtesy of https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=c-smile ). There are still a lot of rough edges when it comes to look
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by mathverse 4mo ago
Yeah but when you get old enough you get sacked and cant get employed anywhere and have to start frying chicken. So..
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by mathverse 6mo ago
Yea there is no incentive. Why use Swift on the server or in k8s when you have gazillion other languages that are performant and have the ecosystems.
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by mathverse 6mo ago
If Swift was paired with smh like QT/GTK (could have replaced Vala) it would've been interesting.
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by mathverse 6mo ago
You can use swift on the server but what for? You have a gigantic ecosystems in languages X,Y,Z. Even Apple does not use Swift on the server (AFAIK) so why would you?
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by mathverse 6mo ago
Swift lives only for macOS,iOS and besides those ecosystems does not have a solid and robust ecosystem to be used for anything else. It's a shame but it for sure needs BigTech for it to be used anywhere else.
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by mathverse 6mo ago
I think it's not about that but about dogfooding Swift on the server. Apple uses Go, Java etc for a lot of its server components and refused to invest in hiring people that would extend the ecosystem for server Swift. Thats the problem
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by mathverse 6mo ago
ARC is a form of garbage collection. Swift does not fare better than Go usually.
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by mathverse 7mo ago
Nano-texture is worth the upgrade if you are on a macbookpro whatever M<cpu> and dont have it. For those of us with astigmatism it's really night and day experience.
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by mathverse 7mo ago
There are no european alternatives. These are all european companies but they dont benefit the whole union. If a germany company gets big it will eat other european markets leaving nothing in those markets and then beg Merz for more immigra
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by mathverse 7mo ago
Yes it does. Japan has a top down culture which does not see change as something useful.
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by mathverse 7mo ago
I am eastern european and yes we do too but not to such extent.
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by mathverse 7mo ago
Japan's decline is not a result of late stage capitalism but their inability to adapt and change cultural expectations and norms. It's decline stems from favoring bullshit work over efficiency, change and adaptation.
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by mathverse 7mo ago
This is not true. It's just "dodgy security/spyware" startups are more open coming from Israel that they exist than the myriad of hidden companies that you never heard about because they focus on tailored exploits.
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by mathverse 8mo ago
Of course. Where else?
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by mathverse 8mo ago
Doubt this. Europeans are "euroracist", protectionist and unable to see the bigger picture. As a european I have exited the continent, sold all my properties and will never return to this place ever again.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Thailand is definitely not an affluent country.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Poorly worded on my part. Europeans typically get debit cards and not credit cards anyway
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Exactly. I dont understand how many europeans dont see this at all.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
>SEPA is instant and no fees outside the EU too, like Norway and UK. This is not the point. They need to be in SEPA for it to work. >It's great Thailand has this, but I still fail to see how EU trying to copy Thailand (for a defi
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by mathverse 9mo ago
PromptPay use is different from SEPA. My comment was meant that QR payments are already possible with SEPA in EU it's just there exist different systems built on top of SEPA which are not cross compatible and available across the membe
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Additionally you need to understand that to be a true VISA/MC alternative like JCB that card needs to work abroad with the POS terminals just needing a SW update. And it needs to rolled out NOW.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
You misread this comment. Thai payment system works across the Asian countries (they are not in a UNION are they?). You can use that payment system if you have a bank in Singapore,Korea,Indonesia etc. Instant no fee payments.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Many countries in EU will have a similar QR code payment system like Thailand based on SEPA. Slovakia is rolling out its own in 2026. The problem is to standardize all these things built on top of SEPA to work across the UNION.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
European cards typically cannot do chargeback.
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by mathverse 9mo ago
I have lost faith in European Union. All these things are just too little and too late. Why the heck did Thailand manage to create instant payment system that works across Asian countries and European Union did not even finish similar syste
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by mathverse 9mo ago
Swift and SwiftUI on macOS are the most complete UI framework that is native, fast, performant and works very well. Basically no other platform comes even close in terms of ease of use and performance. The best would be to extend that kind

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