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Interestingly, previously submitted two months ago as " https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48414519 " Jolt: Clojure Interpreter on Janet. So it seems the clojure interpreter has …

having less addresses than humans is a feature that gets broken by IPv6. IMO, there ought to be less globally valid IPv4 addresses (say, a kilo less or so, maybe even a mega. We pr…

time to try guix again! Let's see ... hey, let's install inside an arch nspawn on arch. Oh no, builds won't complete. Can't mount a proc directory. Doesn't matter if root or not, w…

same here. This thing is gold for "80% solutions" in that respect. It's easier to sanely integrate with legacy transport protocols than trying to update the legacy code base to imp…

To my surprise, in Librewolf this was also enabled. To how much effect, I wouldn't know (I hadn't noticed any shenanigans, then again, I just updated my librewolf and don't know if…

Do I read slowly if this is scrolling too fast for me? Oooph. "If this scrolls too fast for you, you're getting old!", hehe

at "build time", the default language's build tool, a zig program, can reach anywhere and everywhere. To build a zig project, you'd use a zig program to create dependencies and inv…

I feel that's such a red herring. You can @setEvalBranchQuota essentially as big as you want, @embedFile an XML file, comptime parse it and generate types based on that (BTDT). You…

> Personally, I find the idea that a compiler might be able to reach outside itself completely terrifying (Access the network or a database? Are you nuts?). What is "itself" here, …

zig's C compat is being lowered from 'comptime' equivalent status to 'zig build'-time equivalent status. When you'll need to put 'extern "C"' annotations on any import/export to C,…

well, the lisp family of languages surely can do all of that, and more. Check out, for example, clojure's version of zig's dropped 'async'. It's a macro.

zig's comptime has some (objectively: debatable? subjectively: definite) shortcomings that the zig community then overcomes with zig build to generate code-as-strings to be lateron…

yeah, machines of different endianness, and, ideally, different alignment requirements. Always wanted to get an alpha, as well. Had hpux / hp300 ?, sparc, sparc64, 386, x86_64, may…

I dearly remember setting up NetBSD on various sparc stations and ultra sparcs (a II, and an Ultra 60) and running them alongside a set of various other RISCs and CISCs of late 90s…

I suppose: Sometimes things work fine with the implicit default value that you end up with. So this will cause problems when you forget to initialize values to expected sane defaul…

To me, Rust feels as if it had sprung from the same mind. Or in the case of C++, set of minds. Who have a common mindset. I sadly don't critize rust's general design choices constr…

I'm sharing sentiment. C++ feels like a language of bean counters. Rust feels like a language of bean counters. A lot of C++ folks I know went over to rust. They were happy with C+…

loving he goes 'int main() { ... }' and never returns an int from it. Even better: without extra error / warning flags the compiler will just eat this and generate some code from i…

That explains very well why rust (to me) feels like C++ommitte-designed, thanks for that!

Thanks for the feedback. Yeah there's fixed geometry due to time constraints. Glad you could make it work for you eventually!

Instead of playing video and trying to display timing information next to it, how about we build a simulation based on timing data and become able to determine the state of the rac…

Wow, I never knew these deficiencies from gooops. This seems to me like a 'scheme with classes' mindset implementation of CLOS. Given the success of C++ and the like, surely there'…

On the cost of ditching that vi muscle memory.

"Maybe I should fork the compiler and do it myself. Urgh. So many projects. If I could live a million lifetimes, I'd devote one to working on compilers." -- Maybe you are living a …