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Hey everyone, author here. Let me know if you have any thoughts or questions!

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I'm excited to share a project that I've been working on mostly solo for the past year! It's called Elara, and it's a free open source game that teaches you how to code. You can pl…

Thanks for sharing and I'm excited to see what comes next!

Yes, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17305563

Yes, I've already been thinking about constraining type parameters to an interface. Internally, the type-checker considers type parameters to have underlying type interface {}. A c…

Definitely something I'm thinking about. It's one of a handful of features that I have in my head but haven't created an issue for.

The Fo compiler parses and type-checks Fo source code and then generates and outputs Go code. It generates a unique concrete type for each usage of a generic type. You can look at …

Parameterized packages are interesting but they come with their own problems. It can get tedious if I want to use, e.g., a stack with multiple different types. They also lose some …

Ply looks really cool! I can certainly understand the appeal of that kind of approach in terms of simplicity, stability, and better interop. Local types are an edge case I'll need …

Author here. I've been working on Fo part time for 4 months. Feel free to ask me anything.

In a non-NN world, nothing will stop Comcast or ATT&T from also offering an "email only" plan. Except in their version of the plan, it costs $0/month if you use their own hosted em…

What about the way Go handles errors today makes them not "strongly typed"?

Wow! I think it's worth emphasizing that in the given example, the time taken to install all dependencies went from 8m10s to 7.5s. Seems like a huge productivity boon for any teams…

The Moto X and its successors have had this feature for a while. Your phone can be sitting on the other side of the room, completely off, and you can say a certain catch phrase to …

There is a small discrepancy in the article: > Go supports the := assignment operator, which works like this ... All this does is look at the return type of bar(), and set the type…

From the article: "Functional testing of the isolated limbs showed that electrical stimulation of muscle fibers caused them to contract with a strength 80 percent of what would be …

I've tried the Oculus DK1 but not the DK2. They are similar in terms of resolution and tracking accuracy. There are two main differences. The DiVE is a cube-shaped room with six pr…