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NPR's is one of my favorites: https://www.npr.org/404

Ivan answered this in one of his AMAs on Reddit[1] a couple of years ago. He used "Pea" because "Apple" was already taken. [1] https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_…

I've yet to dip my toes into Wasm. This might push me to finally get going. Based on a quick search, Wasmer and Wasmtime appear to be the two most popular runtimes with the latter …

Here's a non-wizard tutorial that I bookmarked when I started with F# (I also had a hard time finding a simple example at first): https://learn.microsoft.com/dotnet/fsharp/get-star…

> I have two young kids and I'm constantly humbled by how fearless they are...There's this tremendous power in "not knowing what you don't know" that sometime in university disappe…

ETscript: https://github.com/markgomez/etscript An interpreter for AMPscript (DSL for personalizing emails) that I used when I was at ExactTarget/Salesforce. I wanted to learn Rust…

Give "A half-hour to learn Rust" a try: https://fasterthanli.me/articles/a-half-hour-to-learn-rust Books/tutorials/etc. never really worked for me because they were all "happy path…

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/ If you're like me and more interested in language additions, each release entry has a "Language Updates" section (under "Language and Librar…

I've spent the last several weeks porting a backend I had written in Go over to Rust (using Axum) and so far so good. But I don't know if I can call things in the Rust world like A…

I wanted to take a break from JavaScript and learn a lower-level language. I've always been into musical instruments, so I thought I'd be knee-deep in C++ and building VST plugins …

This is pretty neat. I'm wondering if something like this (on a smaller scale) could be used to catch the elusive illegal dumper in my neighborhood.

What's everyone using when it comes to data validation these days? Maintenance for one of the most popular crates for this seems to have slowed[1] and options for JSON Schema valid…

The one without the "y": > Ubuntu is an ancient African word meaning ‘humanity to others’. It can also be interpreted as ‘I am what I am because of who we all are’. The Ubuntu oper…

Previous discussion: Why Go and Not Rust? - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20983922 - September 2019 (477 comments)

Sure thing: https://lets-go-further.alexedwards.net That book is a follow-up to an easier book [1] that I also bought, but ended up skipping since I was only interested in writing …

To force myself “to figure out the code,” I typically do the tutorial in a different language. I wanted to get familiar with Java last year, but all the books/tutorials were boring…

I have tinnitus. I always describe my particular case as sounding like a dialup modem that's being "muffled" because it's in the next room over, behind closed doors. With this I ca…

> Historically they also ship compilers and command line dev tools as a separate package, I'm not sure if that's still a thing. It's still a thing: https://visualstudio.microsoft.c…

It sounds like you might be stuck in a "tutorial loop". Put them aside for now, and try building a tiny project for yourself. It could be anything that interests you; scratch whate…

At the beginning of this year, kdy1 (Donny) said he'd be switching to Go after initially trying things out in Rust [1][2], I guess he decided to go through with Rust after all? Or …

> I'd wish I knew golang. You can start learning today. I picked up Go by porting my backend web projects written in different languages over, but my next task is to convert all my…

Chapters 14 and 15 from Crafting Interpreters [1] should be a good start. The entire book is worth a read if you decide to move beyond calculators. [1] https://craftinginterpreters…

Ivan did an AMA earlier this year which is also worth a read: https://old.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/s2elpv/i_made_a_free_...