radarroark

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by radarroark 7mo ago
Pretty typical jaded HN comment there, chief. "This language's churn is more than I prefer -- why would anyone use it?" If you're not interested, just downvote and move on. Wondering out loud why anyone would actively us
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by radarroark 8mo ago
I want to go back to making desktop programs the way we used to before they turned into web apps that bundled chrome. I know I should just use Qt but I have some experience already with win32, and all the programs I have fond memories of ar
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by radarroark 8mo ago
Anyone have experience with distributing win32 programs for Linux and/or MacOS by bundling wine? I take it that statically linking is out of the question, but I am guessing you could make an AppImage binary for linux that includes wine
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by radarroark 8mo ago
Not quite the same as the object serialization you'll find in many standard libraries, because xitdb can read/write data incrementally, so you can work with large-than-memory data sets.
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by radarroark 8mo ago
> Point 1 may be a problem if you're embedded. Large dependencies are not only a problem in embedded programming. That sort of thinking is how we got to the explosion of dependencies and software complexity we're in today. >
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by radarroark 8mo ago
The fastest approach is to just zero out the data. Alternatively you can rebuild the entire database while preserving only the data accessible in the latest copy of the db (kinda similar to SQLite's VACUUM command).
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by radarroark 9mo ago
People are slow to realize the benefit of immutable databases, but it is happening. It's not just auditability; immutable databases can also allow concurrent reads while writes are happening, fast cloning of data structures, and fast u
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by radarroark 9mo ago
Surprisingly, no it does not. Datomic has a more limited feature that lets you make an in-memory clone of the latest copy of the db for speculative writes, which might be useful for tests, but you can't take an arbitrary version of the
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by radarroark 9mo ago
In theory, a database that uses immutable data structures (the hash array mapped trie popularized by Clojure) could allow instant clones on any filesystem, not just ZFS/XFS, and allow instant clones of any subset of the data, not just