parley

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by parley 5y ago
You're arguing for charitable interpretations of statements by people who claimed Go didn't need generics or even that Go was better without them, saying that one should be able to change ones opinion without being called dumb. I
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by parley 6y ago
This was actually more challenging to respond to than I thought it would be. In Go (as the blog post that I linked alludes to): "The convention in the Go libraries is that even when a package uses panic internally, its external API sti
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by parley 6y ago
I'm not a native English speaker, so I had to look up a definition of disingenuous to make sure I didn't misunderstand you. I promise you I'm trying to be candid with my own opinion, and not trying to deceive in any way. What
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by parley 6y ago
I would offer the same criticism of them, as it's the behavior in general that I don't prefer. But of course it's perfectly fine to disagree, this is all about preferences. I like fail fast, being required to handle errors an
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by parley 6y ago
I am not a Go expert so please correct me if I'm wrong, but... The fact that the stdlib HTTP utils in Go recover from panics in handlers and provide no way of changing this via easy setting is one of the things that really annoy me. Se
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by parley 6y ago
This does seem very interesting, at first glance. One thought: > These “scoped life-time” reference counts are used by the C++ shared_ptr⟨T⟩(calling the destructor at the end of the scope), Rust’s Rc⟨T⟩(using the Drop trait), and Nim (us
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by parley 6y ago
That is actively ongoing work: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-...
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by parley 6y ago
Edit: As varbhat has edited their post to clarify that they indeed did not mean to say backing in an adversarial way, my post can be ignored or just read as my understanding of the space. Apologies if I misunderstand your post, in which c
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by parley 6y ago
I recently "closed" 12000+ (not a typo) tabs in one of my Firefox profiles into OneTab. In another profile I have 30+ different windows open for different projects and contexts, and I have more profiles (typically one per WM works
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by parley 6y ago
Yours is an excellent comment, factual and even handed. As someone who had to delve into these things and had to implement e.g. a variant of MultiPaxos for work (this was before Raft existed), I agree that there is a bit of unhealthy conf
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by parley 6y ago
Yeah, I'm not really plugged into the community that well but I think reasonml.org is the long term plan and that some sort of transition might be going on? I've mostly used reasonml.github.io and Bucklescript docs, but lately I&#
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by parley 6y ago
> React developers do not understand functional programming As some sibling comments note, this is not a fair conclusion to draw. And not that it disproves your statement, but Reacts original creator Jordan Walke wrote the first React pr
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by parley 7y ago
Oh, wow. I stumbled over the thread just the other day and mechanically just read the month and day... Since it was November I somehow assumed it was recent without reacting. Thanks for the correction! Well, belated props to you then. =o)
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by parley 7y ago
Yes, there are a lot of us out there who use Signal and have this single missing feature as our largest pain point. My previous phone (iOS) would have been donated or sold to someone who could make better use of it, had I been able to actua
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by parley 7y ago
Do you mean to say that you think that the OpenSSL project feeling obliged to implement the heartbeat extension created by a standards body is significantly more to blame for causing Heartbleed than the (understandable) causes for the gener
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by parley 7y ago
I really think that's an oversimplification. There are always the pro and con arguments about software mono culture and there are good points on both sides, and in this case there is indeed a gigantic cost to maintaining more than one
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by parley 7y ago
I am a paying Spotify customer since 2010 or so and have also spent countless hours developing software for personal use integrating with Spotify. I've used e.g. their old (now deprecated) C-library and now rely on the web API. Therefo
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by parley 7y ago
Superb and very enjoyable writeup! The kind that makes you sit down in a comfy chair with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy a good read. Kudos for both the engineering and the writeup!
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by parley 7y ago
I’ll add to all the examples in this thread that the Rust (also partly of ML descent) compiler was written in OCaml until it became self hosting. I’ll also +1 the comments about ReasonML which is very promising. Though I suppose these are b
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by parley 8y ago
Ha, that was a superb answer, thanks! :D I'll be checking that site! I know you may not have your fingers in this particular flower pot, so the "you" was directed at the entire Rust community. However, while we're here y
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by parley 8y ago
I'm waiting eagerly too, thanks for all the hard work you do! I read somewhere in all the discussions that Carl was hesitant to go all-in on futures 0.3 (those are definitely landing in std, right?) in tokio before some additional ergo
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by parley 8y ago
You remember correctly. This is present in "A fire upon the deep" by Vinge, which is one of the best sci-fi books I have read (although I am not particularly well read). Really, that book contained several concepts (the drifting t
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by parley 8y ago
I like that line of thinking. When discussing the suitability of different programming languages I always point to the problem at hand and identifying the abstraction level the problem is at. What your problem requires you to care about and
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by parley 8y ago
Yeah, the difference in pressure required is a huge part of it! I feel that a lot with gel pens. I also really love the clear, legible lines. Interesting about your moving on to a fountain pen. Now I feel inspired to look up that local pen
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by parley 8y ago
I went through so many years without bothering to find out why I hated some pens and loved some pens, until I decided to dive into the subject a bit. The type of ink and pen affects writing joy so much. I discovered that I was a gel pen kin
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by parley 9y ago
Absolutely. I've been a Rust lurker (and later user/advocate) since ~2012/2013, I think, and the visible WASM support strides being taken right now coupled with my trust in the Rust community gives me great hope for Rust on t
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by parley 9y ago
Sure. I would say that Rust and ReasonML are very alike and very different at the same time, and I'll explain why I feel that. ReasonML's own docs give Rust a notable mention: "Close cousin of ours! Not garbage collected, foc
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by parley 9y ago
I have, and really enjoy it. My previous go-to for frontend was TypeScript, but it wore me down. I am ridiculously productive in ReasonML with proper ADTs, (exhaustive!) pattern matching, immutability and other niceties. The superb type inf
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by parley 9y ago
I use TS myself. It helped make front end development OK for me again. But man, one really misses some things. I recently picked it up again and struggled to remember how to properly do pattern matching and exhaustive checks, until I realiz
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by parley 9y ago
That sounds interesting! Have you considered open sourcing your work? I've been working on similar things on and off for a long time (specifically a sort of meld between Workflowy and spreadsheets, but supporting DAGs), but it takes si

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