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Congrats! This looks super cool. Are there any plans for exposing a Clojure API? Given that it's implemented in Clojure, seems like it would be a natural fit. Interop with Java is …

> I am sorry, but I have to disagree. You disagree that they enjoyed the article?

Reader macros/literals allow for explicitly differentiating between built-in data types, and provide semantic meaning to otherwise indistinguishable forms. For example, defining a …

> don't mix and match words and symbols This is an interesting design decision. Why don’t you want to combine them?

Other workflows exist; pretty silly to act like you’ve found the One True Way.

I roughly agree with you but in your deps.edn example, how would you like the tool to respond? Your map/dictionary/object has an uneven number of forms, so what else would you like…

Adam Neely is fun “pop science” about music but this one in particular is a real treat. Love the cover of the song by Martina de Silva here too.

I just tried breezethat and had to scroll past 6 ads (two screenfuls on my iPhone 10) to see a single result. I know ads are necessary but this is punitive.

Wow, massassi.net is quite a trip through time. I spent many many hours on your site, playing Jedi Knight with friends and randos through GameSpy. Endless hours of entertainment to…

Clojure has that built-in and it’s great. Works wonders when testing things too: write a small test in a comment block and you can edit/evaluate a function then move to the comment…

I love that “hacking language learning” turns out to be “mostly do what babies do”: consume as much content as possible. Babies take it one step further by trying things without em…

I wonder if a `loop`/`recur` construct like the one Clojure has would help here. Allows for closing over data without having to pass everything into a recursive function, and can h…

I suspect they’re using it the same way it’s used on Less Wrong[0]. [0]: https://www.lesswrong.com/tag/rationalist-movement

For all their sneering at traditional philosophy, rationalists (and specifically the Less Wrong community) love to rewrite traditional philosophy in techy terms while missing most …

What do you think I said?

The whole point of that section is that he wasn't there. He'd taken time away to get a Masters of Fine Arts, and this paragraph was his reaction to re-entering the world of program…

I like the writing style and voice in this essay. I disagree with some of the assertions but I enjoyed my time reading, which doesn’t happen a lot with most tech-related essays. I …

> This jaw-droppingly moronic. It can be slightly inconvenient but doesn’t feel moronic to me. It means that except for the built-in functions, everything can be traced to either a…

> Another one is having to import everything you use. The alternative is what exactly? Have the entire standard library exposed at once? Make all modules create non-conflicting nam…

Which is another name for unit tests.

I listened to all of Worm ( https://parahumans.wordpress.com/ ) with TTS and while it wasn’t ideal, it worked out well enough that I got a full understanding of the story. I’ll not…

If a tool attracts enough ire that such arguments arise frequently, then a non-zero number of people are dissatisfied and could be satisfied by other tools. That is worthy of discu…

This is a cheap shot. If you have a point to make, you should make it directly.