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As a sucker :-P for actor based systems was immediately reminded of Pony ( https://www.ponylang.io/discover/#what-is-pony )

I used to love C++, template wrangling :-P aah, but pretty much gave up after C++11. Right about the time when Scott Meyers also said: "enough" (paraphrasing). My biggest issue for…

Developers have control, if text is selectable or not. https://api.flutter.dev/flutter/material/SelectableText-clas...

A short (35 min) overview of BEAM and why it is not like other VMs: JVM, Node https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pO4_Wlq8JeI

This "delightful" experience is not just Amazon. Its what happens when large tech. companies play "who blinks first". Apple has a fair share of blame here, with their cut of 30%/15…

Elixir is functional and immutable first, (and structs) - that alleviates somewhat the pain of not having a strong type system. I really like the architecture of OTP, but I still f…

Ah memories... I once had 100K Python 2.x codebase to maintain. No docs, no tests and then being required to add features. Had to use the debugger[1] to make sense of the codebase …

Same for me, learned to properly touch type with my language layout and with the help of notches on 'f' and 'j' to help me find home row. Being able to keep my eyes on the screen w…

I found it rather annoying that you cannot organise your code to be readable from top-to-bottom in a file, going from the big picture to finer details. Which, I think is much easie…

If anything, the article proves that when you want performance don't use Node.js - or more generally, abstractions have a cost. The actual library, as already pointed out, is writt…