rlawson

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by rlawson 4mo ago
What a great option to have! All of the good parts of Pascal and non of the baggage
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by rlawson 9mo ago
Such a loss! I like many others was captivated by this show. How many future IT industry professionals did Stewart inspire I wonder? Has to be thousands. A great legacy. Still my favorite show to put in the background while I code.
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by rlawson 9mo ago
Really interesting work!
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by rlawson 9mo ago
ah my home state. Many people here just have lost faith in science and the elites and just believe whatever political junk they are watching. Somehow letting your kid get measles is owning the libs. I don't understand it but am content
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by rlawson 10mo ago
A previewer for Sierra which is an XML based DSL for Java Swing (not by me, but by Greg Brown) https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra I like the ability to declare UIs and the layout manager that Sierra has is the only san
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by rlawson 10mo ago
Wow, this UI looks amazing. I'm going to go check the app out but what did you use to get a Swing app to look so nice?
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by rlawson 11mo ago
This is awesome! Headed to try it out now. I am so happy to see Java catching up to Python in this space. This project, langchain4j, dflib, echarts java, etc
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by rlawson 11mo ago
After so many years as a Java dev my brain thinks in classes so not having classes or exceptions made it a constant struggle. Nothing against Go, more about me.
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by rlawson 11mo ago
Thanks! I will check it out
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Ask HN: Anyone else use FreePascal as their low level language?
69 points by rlawson 11mo ago|53 comments
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by rlawson 1y ago
to answer my own question - poking through this list looks like QB64 would do it but also seems they split into 2 projects - QB64 and QB64PE
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by rlawson 1y ago
Yes, I'd really like to use a basic that is open source but cross platform and compiles to executable. I'm not sure such a thing exists tho!
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by rlawson 1y ago
Congrats for sticking with it! Taking a look
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Ask HN: Is there a coming dev boom for agent tools?
2 points by rlawson 1y ago|1 comments
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by rlawson 2y ago
Love seeing projects like this that make it easier to talk to our retro systems
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by rlawson 2y ago
Same, I had zero interest in full native (takes too long) or things like React native (I hate javascript) and Dart/Flutter seems a decent path forward.
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by rlawson 2y ago
Thanks! I really do enjoy writing Dart. Hopefully one day it gets cross compile support. Go is nice in that regard but the syntax compared to Dart is not as expressive to me.
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Ask HN: Pros and Cons of the Dart Language?
4 points by rlawson 2y ago|4 comments
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Ask HN: Is a Dignified Layoff Possible?
5 points by rlawson 2y ago|1 comments
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by rlawson 2y ago
How I wanted one of these, but price tag was waaayyy out of reach
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by rlawson 2y ago
As a chemical engineer in the late 90's I used fltk to write a real-time photoresist film web inspection system. The first version in VB was too slow as the system used a laser to scan for defects in film going by at several hundred fe
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by rlawson 2y ago
Heck yeah. Still pays the bills for me after 20 years and with Micronaut, Quarkus and even Spring boot the story around startup time and memory consumption is great. Tons of devs to hire, insanely good tooling/monitoring/debugging
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by rlawson 2y ago
This looks great, especially for developer docs! I'm going to check it out.
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by rlawson 2y ago
I do wish Lua saw more widespread use as a general scripting language. I find it's simplicity refreshing compared to Python
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Ask HN: Closest Lua web framework to Django?
3 points by rlawson 2y ago|0 comments
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by rlawson 2y ago
Very useful project - I'm primarily a Java dev and it makes things much easier for me to have some level of compile time type support when working with lua
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by rlawson 2y ago
Redash is great and all but if you already have a Django app this is 10 min to have up and running inside that same app
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by rlawson 2y ago
Very useful tool! I contributed a few features as a repayment for the ton of value I have gotten from it
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by rlawson 2y ago
Yep - I switched from C/C++ to Java around 99 and compared to the pain of C++ it was an easy decision. There is a ton of business logic and line of business apps that Java was the default choice for a lot of years. If Swing had a more
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by rlawson 2y ago
Same! Just add in an easy way to print from the emulator!

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