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Strange, I was able to sign up from my .family email

I really wish that Kestrel was available as a standalone library. Kind of like Jetty on the JVM.

Does that mean you are planning a specific editor for it?

Except that Google Drive just doesn't seem to work in Firefox.

Ada came out of the DOD so assuming it's an all-caps acronym makes a lot of sense. ;)

> I think that makes it the second (production-ready) language to have a primarily-structural type system I assume we are talking about a static type system here? Many common "scri…

It is interesting to me that I read people criticizing Microsoft for their open sourcing code as doing it for marketing reasons---which seems accurate---but not criticizing Google …

What's the problem with the module system and functors?

Would you be willing to explain why explicit asynchrony is superior to implicit cooperative threading? Rather than simply engaging in more namecalling.

Ah, maybe, perhaps I am in the minority that liked the different operators for ints and floats. :D

> and not so good at floating point computations What does this mean? I was under the impression the OCaml compiler did a decent number of floating point specific optimizations, li…

What is the problem with running Android here?

I don't think I'd call Rust user friendly.

"Terrible and unoriginal name choice" is probably a little dramatic: https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=gutenberg+static+...

No customization presents a simple tool that, hopefully, just works and can be accepted with its flaws and limitations. Once customization starts being added in, it's easier to see…

It's significantly easier to be "bad" with C++ than it is to be "bad" with Java.

The Sile PDF says > There is no shortcut for boldface, because boldface isn’t good typographic practice and so we don’t want to make it easy for you to make bad books. Where/what i…

What is the process for converting what is written in Quoll into something printable, like a PDF?

Has anyone used (Quoll Writer)[0]? [0]: https://quollwriter.com/

"provides a read-only mirror" sounds like "developed behind closed doors" to me.

Oh, bummer, I was really hoping it would support Windows.

Not if it's a dictionary!

That doesn't explain why they would need a different precedence. `a + b - c` is not the same as `a - b + c` even through the precedence's of + and - are the same (in most syntaxes)…

How so?

You gain the knowledge that a device running Fuchsia is running code that's publicly available.