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It's not hate, it's not wanted to be associated with: see https://victorwynne.com/dhh/

For me, the difference is that if methods are inlined, the compiler is still required to do a copy for structs but not for value classes. I do not know how this is called.

I think pass by copy is a consequence of being modifiable. The other solution is to stack allocate and pass a pointer but as i said, unlike in C#, i do not think it's possible to d…

The article has a section about that. For me, a struct in C/C# can be modified and is passed by copy while a value class can not be modified and is passed by value. I do not think …

The usual GC tradeoff is between memory and CPU performance. If you set the memory max high, the GC will run less often, you get less pause time. So I do not understand why it's a …

I agree. And the next section is very clear that they want to kill the project. > For example, rather than proposing one single concrete JIT implementation, > it may make more sens…

You need more than that for the example with setTimeout(). It requires to be able to freeze the stack and then go back later. You need stackful coroutine (like goroutine) for that.…

If you do not block 3rd party harness, people will discover that a good harness is more important than a good model.

Yes, and let's not forget Stephen Elop's 'Burning Platform' Memo https://www.wsj.com/articles/BL-TEB-2031

Parser generators are great in Python (Lark for me) so you can iterate fast and get a runtime spec of your grammar. A hand-written recursive descent parser is something you do late…

In C#, all instances have a class, so there is already a discriminant, the class itself. In the article, the example with the switch works because it switches on the class of the i…

In Scala 3, the inline keyword is part of the macro system. When inline is used on a parameter, it instructs the compiler to inline the expression at the call site. If the expressi…

There is a modern equivalent based on Linux criu. https://github.com/CRaC/

Yes, the version in Java is clearly less elegant. Java has map+lambda and compareTo ( ) but no tuple assignemnt and no splat. record AppVersion(int major, int minor, int patch) imp…

For the record (sorry), I believe C# uses the clone operation because records support inheritance. For me, this is where lies the design flaw, trying to support both inheritance an…

> Libya was bombed primarily by France and then other NATO countries for no good reason https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alleged_Libyan_financing_in_th...

And AISQL is a thing ... https://quickstarts.snowflake.com/guide/getting-started-with-cortex-aisql/index.html I'm glad i'm retired.

Java Almanac has a list of all features https://javaalmanac.io/features/ And the main page let you compare API versions https://javaalmanac.io/

> at least I know that the phone will be supported for at least 4 years It's 4 (mid) to 7 years (flagship) for Samsung. https://www.androidauthority.com/samsung-android-updates-114…

OOP is great for libraries but leads to overly complex codes for applications. For a long time, Java was like, every classes is a library, i do not think it's a failure of OOP, it'…

I've just tried to change a field of an instance of a record using reflection, and it's not possible, even with setAccessible(true).

In Java, constants are declared as static final. static final Complex CONSTANT = new Complex(1, 2); If you want a lazy initialized constant, you want a stable value static final St…

In JavaScript, a 'let' inside the initializer of a for loop is captured by value, all the others are captured by reference. I think it's fair to call that semantics "implicit".