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What a great option to have! All of the good parts of Pascal and non of the baggage

Such a loss! I like many others was captivated by this show. How many future IT industry professionals did Stewart inspire I wonder? Has to be thousands. A great legacy. Still my f…

Really interesting work!

ah my home state. Many people here just have lost faith in science and the elites and just believe whatever political junk they are watching. Somehow letting your kid get measles i…

A previewer for Sierra which is an XML based DSL for Java Swing (not by me, but by Greg Brown) https://github.com/HTTP-RPC/Sierra I like the ability to declare UIs and the layout m…

Wow, this UI looks amazing. I'm going to go check the app out but what did you use to get a Swing app to look so nice?

This is awesome! Headed to try it out now. I am so happy to see Java catching up to Python in this space. This project, langchain4j, dflib, echarts java, etc

After so many years as a Java dev my brain thinks in classes so not having classes or exceptions made it a constant struggle. Nothing against Go, more about me.

Thanks! I will check it out

Like most devs I have a couple high level languages (Java/Python/PHP) but my low level language was always C/C++. However after 25 years I was still shooting myself in the foot on …

to answer my own question - poking through this list looks like QB64 would do it but also seems they split into 2 projects - QB64 and QB64PE

Yes, I'd really like to use a basic that is open source but cross platform and compiles to executable. I'm not sure such a thing exists tho!

Congrats for sticking with it! Taking a look

I lived through the internet transition where suddenly every company had to have a website, then again the same with mobile apps. I am busy currently writing agent tools to allow l…

Love seeing projects like this that make it easier to talk to our retro systems

Same, I had zero interest in full native (takes too long) or things like React native (I hate javascript) and Dart/Flutter seems a decent path forward.

Thanks! I really do enjoy writing Dart. Hopefully one day it gets cross compile support. Go is nice in that regard but the syntax compared to Dart is not as expressive to me.

I have been working with flutter and have come to really like Dart. I'm primarily a Java dev and to me Dart feels like a lighter Java with better dev experience. I am considering u…

I was reflecting on the tough job market and feeling bad for all the folks experiencing a layoff - not to mention worrying what may be in my own future given industry trends. Havin…

How I wanted one of these, but price tag was waaayyy out of reach

As a chemical engineer in the late 90's I used fltk to write a real-time photoresist film web inspection system. The first version in VB was too slow as the system used a laser to …

Heck yeah. Still pays the bills for me after 20 years and with Micronaut, Quarkus and even Spring boot the story around startup time and memory consumption is great. Tons of devs t…

This looks great, especially for developer docs! I'm going to check it out.

I do wish Lua saw more widespread use as a general scripting language. I find it's simplicity refreshing compared to Python

I am attracted to the simplicity of Lua vs the increasing complexity of Python but I really miss the speed of development of Django. What would be the closest Lua equivalent? I lik…