metasim

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by metasim 2mo ago
Why?
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by metasim 4mo ago
In my experience with Claude Code, it writes most of the code, including tests, without invoking the compiler until the very end (almost like a spelling checker). Rarely are there any compilation problems, and when there are, it’s often a t
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by metasim 8mo ago
Thank you!
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by metasim 8mo ago
What’s an “SRE”?
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by metasim 1y ago
Who says he has to maintain it? It’s open source… 100% free for anyone else to start maintaining it.
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by metasim 4y ago
Borrow checker in Rust? Implicits in Scala?
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by metasim 12y ago
It's worth noting that `Option(null)` is `None`. And while it's possible for any reference to be assigned `null`, it rarely happens in Scala code as a) it's well known to be bad form, and b) the IDE's can be configured t
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by metasim 12y ago
I can't substantiate this, but my sense is that the generation of general-purpose, non-academic programming languages C++ lowered the barrier to writing software in the industrial context (think VB.Net, etc.). This can be seen as a goo
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by metasim 12y ago
If you strongly restrict mutability (significantly facilitated in Scala with case classes), then OO and FP dovetail quite elegantly. The Kiama language processing library is a fantastic example of getting the best of both (there are many ot
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by metasim 12y ago
Is your argument that deep experience in Clojure is sufficient in determining FP/OO hybridization isn't a good idea or can't be done well? I didn't think that was in the sphere of Clojure's goals.