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one thing I love about Smalltalk is being able to inspect the code as it's running. Especially from the GUI. You can just be like Oh I wonder where the code for this button is from…

It is very common in Japan to have to pay key money when moving in, which is typically 1-2 months of rent. This isn’t like a security deposit as it is non refundable and is basical…

There was a post on here awhile ago from Jeffrey Snovers blog about how Microsoft screwed this up as well. Given how many people have moved to electron, and how big companies don’t…

Has anyone ever done a comparison between the smaller models like Luna, against the previous GPT 5 frontier models? Have we gotten to the point where the small models are as good a…

As someone who didn’t play many of the point and click adventures growing up, thimbleweed park was a lot of fun. I also like the genre more than visual novels. I kind of felt like …

Glad to see work on Hurd pick up more this past few years. I doubt it will ever be mainstream, but I’ve always found the concept interesting

I feel like SIMD has been around for decades. Why has it taken this long to catch on? I feel like I have been hearing it a lot through the past few years. It feels like it’s talked…

I feel like the only real answer is "we just don't know". But in an attempt to actually answer this, I think the breaking point are different for different groups of people. If you…

Software quality is tied to the market incentives and always has been. AI isn’t going to make someone care about writing robust software and that is why we don’t see better softwar…

I did this with a python languah

I had never seen the music video until the news started playing it. Super funny

While I agree that the Zig code in Bun could be better, and that the Silicon Valley pressure to move fast and break things prevented a lot of suggested improvements, this feels lik…

It’s interesting to see how llms have turned the concept of rewrite it in rust, from an impossibility for some projects (code is too large and complicated, it will take too much ti…

I'm curious to hear from people if anyone who uses Bun after this changed has noticed any day to day differences with the rust version over the zig version

I wonder how useful this could be as a generalized version control for regular user systems, as a way to rollback, or scrub through history. Presumably if this is designed to work …

Bjarne Stroustrup was recently interviewed by Ryan Peterman^1 1. https://youtu.be/U46fJ2bJ-co?t=2780 and Ryan asked Bjarne about memory safety. Bjarne brushes it off and says that …

For clarity in this dual programming language scenario I'm talking about, I'm writing a user facing app that's mostly a lot of business logic. It's running slow so I profile it and…

> Why have operators at all? I mean as an avid Lisp fan, I feel like Lisp basically answers the question of how much syntax you need in a langauge. I must admit though, not having …

Here is where I think Zig shines. When you are a high level programmer that needs to drop down to a low level programming language for performance reasons. The issue with doing tha…

I am not 100% opposed to AI and I spent multi hundreds of dollars across the major players right now, but I'll see what I can add. > At some point, execution speed starts to matter…

In Grad school I remember learning Python 2, and there was one particular night where an assignment of mine just wasn’t working and no searches were helping me. I was frustrated to…

Blizzard's Real ID system would fix all of this. It was ahead of it's time /s

Very cool use of Elixir! I have been considering the Fig Stack (F# + Zig) myself, so I'm excited to see Zig being paired with a Functional Language