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Lots of the same people that were behind: https://www.terminal.shop/ afaict, for that project they never went through PCI compliance. See original thread for more information: http…

Most of my gripes are when trying to use Julia the way a software engineer would use a programming language. Most "data scientist" code is exploratory (it's a prototype or a script…

I think multiple dispatch (useful as it is) is a little overrated. There's a significant portion of the time where I know I have a closed set of cases to cover, and an enum type wi…

> Telling what? Did you actually listen to the talk that you linked to, or read the top comment there by Chris Rackauckas? To clarify exactly where I'm coming from, I'm going to ex…

I'm excited to see `--trim` finally make it, but it only works when all code from entrypoints are statically inferrable. In any non-toy Julia program that's not going to be the cas…

I would really like to see more people who have never written C++ before port a Rust program to C++. In my opinion, one can argue it may be easy to port initially but it is an orde…

This article is great, and really distills why the ergonomics of Rust is so great and why languages like Julia are so awful in practice.

I'm happy to see static compilation in the works! If static compilation takes off, and people are able to build Python packages that are secretly just compiled Julia code, I can se…

I really like Nim but this identifier resolution seems to be the only topic that comes up against Nim, and I really doubt this "feature" is worth the consternation when pitching th…

> One way data binding that is immutable and has explicit functions for each state transition is a major feature. > {valid JS expression} > is > React.createElement(Tag, { a: "b", …

I think YouTube will "win" this war, unfortunately. Even people that "join" individual channels cannot watch content from those channels if they use AdBlock. At some point these pe…

For clarification, these are 100k LOC projects where I'm the only software engineer. I've worked on larger projects in C++ with other engineers, and would absolutely continue to pr…

If your error is 5 or 10 levels deep, do you prepend contextual information every time? External libraries typically have good error messages already, why do I have to prepend basi…

I agree that Go's web backend features make it fun to prototype an application. But the moment I want to do anything more complicated, then I'm not sure. I counted the number of li…

I like that errors are in your face too, but with the caveat that only when they matter. And in Go, the lazy thing will result is a bad time. You can always bet on people being laz…

Sure, but this code propagates the errors and that has the same problem: err := db.Get(&latLong, "SELECT lat, long FROM cities WHERE name = $1", name) if err == nil { return latLon…

That seems like a fair article. The error handling in Go is SO verbose. When reading my code (or even reviewing other people's code) in order to understand at a high level what is …

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1N85yU6RMcY This talk on YouTube seems to suggest that not everything is all hunky dory with Zig as a C/C++ compiler (with reference to libc) but I …

People that are saying this is SEO, in my opinion, haven't read or used RealPython. It is genuinely one of the best Python learning websites out there. Their articles are written b…

One of the main reasons Zig was interesting to me was the fact that I could drop it in as an alternative to a C/C++ compiler. On Windows, my friends have mentioned how it is easier…

A little over a year ago, they came out of beta: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30688552 There are so many comments in that thread advising not to use Google Domains (includi…