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by throwaway17_17 6d ago
This being primarily generated leads me to wonder: is there a good source, written by academics or professionals, for this information? Although I am not interested in using LLMs for much of anything, the theory and implementation (where th
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by throwaway17_17 14d ago
Your comment seems to imply that async/await should be or is in some setting not just sugar for promises. But, I am under the impression the async/await is (and always has been) sugar over explicit promises. Not just in JavaScript
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by throwaway17_17 17d ago
I know it’s a late reply, but the answer is absolutely both of us are exceptionally neurotic. But in completely different ways.
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
After digging through a recently passed relative’s hard drive (the computer barely functioned so I pulled it) and having to search through years of garbage that where never deleted to find the photos, Word documents, and WordPerfect documen
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
If you are asking in the context of Idris 2.0 (the current version), ST is not really related. However, if you mean ST in Idris 1.0, there is a definite correlation. The mechanism that ST used for enabling local mutations was very similar t
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
From a language design perspective I go back and forth on named params. I think the only conclusion I’ve reached is that I am not in favor of them being optional, but I think that is more a concern for implementation of the language and les
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
I feel so seen right now. My partner complains about me closing apps on my phone consistently. I also have to hold myself back from defragging and continually cleaning up my storage drives. I too am nearly certain that the positive benefits
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
I think this is a good argument for the Ticket, however, for the case where these three functions are generically useful, not just used in this specified order, I would write a specific function, just copy-paste of the bodies capturing the
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by throwaway17_17 18d ago
I know this wasn’t the crux of your post, but do you find that you primarily look at types as puzzles in a majority of your code? I have a fundamentally different view and find other perspectives interesting when thinking about language des
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The Root of the Root of All Evil – Casey Muratori [video](youtube.com)
5 points by throwaway17_17 21d ago|1 comments
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by throwaway17_17 21d ago
Casey Muratori talk from the Better Software Conference 2026.
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by throwaway17_17 1mo ago
Has this become a ‘smell’? I tend to start my HN comments that are going be negative with versions of this, or my habitual “Genuine question, ..”; but if this is going to flag readers’ internal LLM-detector I will have to find some other wa
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
I wish I could give more up votes for this comment. These made my Friday night. Thanks for the links.
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
I wrote the following and then realized it sounds a little pretentious, but I think it get my point across regardless. Also, I’m not a scholar of Buddhism or a practicing Buddhist, so I could be grossly generalizing or misunderstanding what
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
The way you phrased your second block, particularly your last sentence is exceptional. I’m not sure if I agree with the substance (I’m pretty sure I’m about 90% there), but the phrasing is very emphatic. A lot of discussions I’ve seen, and
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
When I decided to really learn how to program, after dabbling in very basic C++ from books and using BASIC this article and Eric S. Raymond’s ‘How to Become a Hacker’ [1] (CATB is struggling to load at all these days it seems) were two of t
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
That depends mostly on the jurisdiction, the structure of public defense in said jurisdiction, and the quality, resourcing, and culture of the individual Public Denfender’s Office. I do understand the view from strictly statistical analysis
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by throwaway17_17 2mo ago
Guilty Gear and Hi-Fi Rush are both Unreal 4 games and a lot of the comments in this thread are about the Lumen+Nanite ‘grain’ that seems very present in Unreal 5. I certainly think there is was inflection point for Unreal’s inherent comple
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
I think this is a situation where the term systems programming is too un- or ill-defined to be anything but a semantic argument in waiting. I am not particularly fond of the broader meaning systems programming has taken on but I understand
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
What are you describing as a frame update? I am trying to be as generous as possible to your comment and thereby assuming there is a disconnect between my understanding of ‘frame update’ and yours. Genuinely curious, because that term as I
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
Do you know of any articles, tests, or implementation breakdowns that show this. I don’t have the personal experience to agree, but if that’s the case Inwould really like to know how the improvements were achieved.
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
If this is a joke, I actually chuckled. But, maybe this is a terminology issue conflating an embeddable language with a language used for embedded programming. I think this is one of those CS issues prevalent for non-native English speakers
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
I agree with your objection to treating goroutines as the baseline implementation of fibers. However, I would disagree with categorizing the feature as a library feature vs a language level feature. In “low-level” languages (C, Rust, Zig, C
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
Not to derail this thread on Mach, which as I stated in another comment has some pretty appealing characteristics for me, but since you’re here and the dev of another ‘low-level’ programming language: I read through a segment of your langua
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by throwaway17_17 3mo ago
I find the goals of explicitness and maintainability to be really pitched to my current taste. From a quick view it looks like the syntax is approaching a local maximum for conforming to expectations and not sacrificing the explicitness sou
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by throwaway17_17 6mo ago
In the ‘Caveats’ section the author discusses that the advice only applies to types constructed via Record Syntax and that datatypes with positional arguments are exempt from the rule/preference proposed. I wonder if the argument for t
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by throwaway17_17 6mo ago
After so wrote the comment below I realized that it really is just ‘um, actually…’ about discussing using concurrency vs implementing it. It’s probably not needed, but I do like my wording so I’m posting it for personal posterity. In the co
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by throwaway17_17 6mo ago
Is there a reason Rust would not (as it was done in the ‘good ole days’) index the table via pointer arithmetic from .data? Also, I’m assuming that because you are discussing new devs, that they are not making the implementation decision to
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by throwaway17_17 6mo ago
Regarding your mention of compiler magic and Swift, I don’t know much about the language, but I have read a handful of discussions/blogs about the compiler and the techniques used for its implementation. One of the purported benefits&#
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by throwaway17_17 6mo ago
I don’t know if the language is yours, but I think the wording and its intended meaning (the sentence starting with ‘The core implementation…’) may be one of the most concise statements of my personal programming language design ethos. I’m

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