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This is my exact experience. TypeScript seemed to hit a complexity sweet spot about 5 years ago, then they just kept adding more obscure stuff to the type system. I find that under…

This is no longer remotely true. Most .NET teams I know now deploy on Linux and develop on Windows/Mac/Linux.

Wow. I just had it write a song about being sad about losing my keys in r&b/soul style, I'm totally blown away: https://www.udio.com/songs/bDY5CYdJZP93AdpgpfBJNX

I'm not seeing a major problem here, you just need to install MSVC++ alongside it.

I've always been a big proponent of TypeScript, but does anyone else feel like the type system has gotten a bit too flexible? I recently had to fix some errors when upgrading packa…

Maybe libuv? It's used by node and julia. It's not a full standard library by any means, but it would give you the event loop with async/networking/io/threading.

Sarno's work comes up periodically on HN, and I always have to chime in to say that it cured my RSI. Everything is still completely, 100% cured at 15+ years. As a developer, I have…

No need for a meditation myth at all, absolutely. It's brain hacking as far as I'm concerned. As for concentration training vs mindfulness meditation, I do think there's a differen…

It's about training your mind's executive control/function. You learn to focus on one thing and allow others to pass through your awareness without them being overly distracting/di…

Beautiful Racket is quite nice: https://beautifulracket.com/

Also, WebAssembly can't support most GC runtimes now, because you can't scan the stack for roots. You can keep your own shadow stack on the heap, but that has a bunch of pretty bad…

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FedEx maybe. UPS is unionized, I think they pay a fair wage.

Very cool! I'd love to see proper macros in a major language like Dart. And the proposal looks good, like a mix of Scala and Nemerle.

Any particular reason you like Dart so much? I tried it briefly, and it felt like a watered-down mashup of Java and C# with somewhat worse performance.

It highly depends on the use case. When people interact with a piece of software all day every day, they tend to appreciate having more information/actions available at a glance. S…

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There's a Cranelift backend, which is apparently faster at creating debug builds than LLVM: https://github.com/bjorn3/rustc_codegen_cranelift

That's great! Like you, it did take me a while to get to 100%. Old habits die hard, I guess. You really know you're there when you realize you forgot to think about RSI for a whole…

I totally agree, the prevailing RSI advice about posture and exercise and fancy chairs and input devices and taking breaks is not one-size-fits-all. In my case, Sarno's book showed…

Making Blob Opera with David Li: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZfLYuXi6sDI

https://arewegameyet.rs/ Rust is not really there yet for game development, in my opinion. Amethyst is probably the most advanced 3D engine at the moment, but they are having some …

I have a fair bit of Rust experience, and I agree that it adds a lot of cognitive overhead. It gets better over time as you learn how to appease the compiler, but the borrow checke…