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What’s unique about Jam is that it tries to keep the ergonomics of a C-like language while enforcing safety without a garbage collector or lifetime annotations. Its main differenti…

It's a bit ironic that the "Good fit" for "When High Level Rust Makes Sense" lists all the use cases where someone would typically _not_ reach for Rust, and "Not a fit" lists all t…

I think it's because majority of people using Rust come from C++ where the devx is way worse. But I think what pulls down the devx is the perceived steep learning curve, plus lifet…

Crystal's issues list 785 open issues tagged as bugs, as of today, 16. april 2026: https://github.com/crystal-lang/crystal/issues?q=state%3Aope... Is that normal? Or does someone j…

Just remember Rob Pike's 1st rule: don't assume where bottlenecks will occur, but verify it.

How could CSS (or any language) have been designed so that these mistakes could have easily been corrected today in any case? If the mentioned mistakes or similar language design m…

x = x + 1 always annoyed me as a syntax for binding, when first learning programming, coming from using = in equational reasoning in mathematics. x: x + 1 would have been more natu…

In two concepts: syntactic sugar vs syntactic vinegar.

I did not dismiss speech’s potential to cause hurt feelings, I acknowledged and affirmed it. It is not to be taken lightly. Yet, we need an effective demarcation between speech and…

I am not arguing that terms cannot be used in broader or more expansive or even metaphorical meaning. But I am arguing that the accuracy/essence of the term «violence» ought to be …

The fact that the Wikipedia page on «verbal abuse» has to use «verbal» as a prefix term to the terms «abuse», «violence», «assault» etc. actually underscores the point: If those te…

Why would you even need to say «call for violence» if speech were violence in itself? No one is opposing the fact that speech can be used to call for violence, but that doesn’t mak…

Distinguishing speech from violence is not to dismiss the potential for speech to cause hurt feelings.

From each except the first: - «force, assault» - «action» - «an act of aggression» Which stands in contrast to «speech». Though any expression can be used in a broader sense than w…

The post could have been called «The Unexpected Woes of Scalability: Few in-betweens».

You should look up the definitions of the word «violence». You seem to be using violence figuratively (synonymously with ‘injustice’), but ignoring it’s essential and accurate defi…

The flying wrenches remind me of the Gravity gun i Half-Life 2 :D

«Freedom software» is what they should call it. It would remove the awkward ad-hoc parentheses at every instance. Besides: The Americans will LOVE it!

Unbundled won over bundled approach, even for RedwoodJS itself (which is now renamed Redwood GraphQL): "Unbundled Integrations: Over the coming months, we'll progressively unbundle…

This was clarifying: https://redwoodjs.com/blog/redwoodsdk See also earlier thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43592998 RedwoodJS is going into maintenance mode and is na…

> He turned "same form" into "homoiconic" with the help of Greek/Latin. «same form» in Greek would rather be «homomorphic». (Or in latin «eademforma», which could maybe be turned t…

No, because you can see when a website is using design components that imitate a particular platform (iOS, Android), like Ionic. Because the UI elements wouldn’t naturally look lik…