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gorthol

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    Comment #14556810

    For example you could implement a credit system where anyone could be a creditor and vote (with their digital signature) what requests get approved. Then, once the money changes ha…

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    Comment #14482020

    I think it was "safe and performant without a GC" because both Nim and D have C++ level performance while being memory safe as any GCd language is.

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    Comment #14415810

    D uses C calling conventions and struct layout so it's pretty trivial to call D code from D or vicecersa and link together, the only step added over C++ is writing an include file …

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    Comment #14415801

    There is Vibe.d but I don't know if is as good as Go stdlib.

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    Comment #14415777

    It depends. If you don't care about the specific error and just want to notify the failure up the stack or recovering is perfectly fine. A lot of Go code with the same intent just …

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    Comment #14415758

    Actually, D suports "fibers" where you have a "Task". Then you can switch the task handler to another implementation and have Go-like M:N coroutines. The default handlers in the st…

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    Comment #14389362

    Salaries in Madrid or Barcelona are more or less the same. Typical ranges are 18-28K for a junior, 36-52 for a senior and 42-70 for a lead. A CTO on a startup will depend a lot on …

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    Comment #14365044

    I still like D the most because of stability and how many features at your disposal, but Nim is a close second and is looking really good to.

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    Comment #14133555

    Well, everybody is free to switch editors as they like and I respect that. I've been using Vim non-stop for as much time as it has existed but I sometimes like to try other editors…

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    Comment #14133554

    Well, everybody is free to switch editors as they like and I respect that. I've been using Vim non-stop for as much time as it has existed but I sometimes like to try other editors…

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    Comment #14133308

    Tried it recently. It still very far away from what I would call a decent Vim emulation.

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    Comment #14085280

    I work on several languages professionally being the only one without exceptions Go and I don't see how its idiotic pattern of checking the value returned after every single call i…

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    Comment #14073700

    I've bursts. Sometimes I can work three days non stop and sometimes I strugle to write any good code. Luckily I've some margin to decide on what to work every day so I do documenta…

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    Comment #14073687

    That how I would maximize developer productivity (but NOT working hours) if I owned a company: - Let them work at home, at any time they want. Just reserve some hours for meetings …

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    Comment #13960752

    Upload your vimrc file and .vim directory to github and just do a clone on every new server.

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    Comment #13845438

    I've been doing Python professionally for 13 years (among other languages, but Python is in the one I've used more). I like the language but I also hate some things (mainly, the GI…