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Not surprisingly, it is J [1], an APL dialect. [1] https://www.jsoftware.com/

have you read about Erlang supervision trees? https://adoptingerlang.org/docs/development/supervision_tree...

Common things in all these Pro-Apple threads: 1. Macbook users who have/are using non-Apple laptops that find the average work-issued Intel laptops to be just meh or worse. 2. Peop…

The new `uv format` is just a shortcut for `uv run --with ruff ruff`.

For many years I went without looking at LinkedIn at all. I even deleted my LinkedIn account for couple of years in mid '10s. I have found a lot of value in LinkedIn recently after…

It is called Uniform [Function] Call Syntax. D has had this for decade(s): https://tour.dlang.org/tour/en/gems/uniform-function-call-sy... Nim too has it: https://nim-by-example.gi…

The number of web projects that fall into these categories vastly outnumber “complex” projects. For complex there is always WASM.

If you want to talk to someone who has been in the industry (both non-tech industry, to tech industry, to tech industry giants) for 20+, you can reach out to me. I'm happy to hop o…

Here's an implementation using plain javascript and a JSON file to store short-codes and target URLs: https://www.btbytes.com/posts/url-shortener.html

You don't have to override the template in the lua code to include the mvp.css file. use --css argument to set the location of the css file. it can even take multiple arguments (on…

As user dvt mentioned, this is built using bookdown[1], an R library (with the help of Pandoc). You can see that the example chapter of this book looks exactly like the bookdown ou…

D's default package manager already allows you to write code like this which 1. runs the code like a script 2. downloads dependencies if they are required. #!/usr/bin/env dub /+ du…

This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesth…

There is a whole book on the ill effects of too much light in modern times -- Lights Out ( https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Lights-Out/T-S-Wiley/... )

nim/zig/red. * I already use nim and I'm very productive in it. * Would like to use Zig for "system programming" when and if something like Nim (and D) are inadequate. * Red becaus…

I have a whole page on nim here - https://www.btbytes.com/nim.html Edit:typo

I'm the author. You are right. I think the above are all "mainstream" enough for me. At the least, I've installed and played with them all at one time.

My comment was about the presence of culturally rich languages in India, including Tamil. You and the original commenters have made this about Tamil's antiquity. Why the low self-e…

Ha! typical propaganda. Why are some of you Tamils are so insecure about the "antiquity" of your language. I even mentioned Tamil before my own. But, NO!! You had to come here and …

Same with Tamil, Kannada, Bengali, Malayalam etc.,

So can you with D. With D, in addition, you can link against C shared libraries (dynamic linking) AND you can write standalone libraries in D that even C can link against (see Mir/…