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Can I call into the interpreter from multiple threads or does it use global state?

Congrats! I think this could be quite useful for me. I noticed that `let`-declared variables seem to be mutable. I'd strongly recommend against that. Add a `var` keyword.

Re 2: Iran previously launched drones and missiles at Israel about a year ago. See https://apnews.com/article/strait-of-hormuz-vessel-33fcffde2...

I've been working on a type checker for a language with ad-hoc overloading and what I did was have the checker proceed iteratively, making passes over the set of constraints and ap…

Before iOS, I was coding animation software on Linux using vim/scons for five years. So no real IDE. But not a fair comparison because we had a build team keeping everything nice. …

Ok well you asked. I've been using Xcode for 15 years now professionally. I have two CS degrees and one of my apps was featured on the Mac App Store front page. So, basically, I kn…

What podcast?

I suspect the problem there is that the multiple paths to a new location will not yield consistent results.

Google says: “California is the largest agricultural exporter in the United States”

If you have a recent machine, the actual developer experience isn't too bad. It's just not a language for language purists (was it ever?). I'm enough of a purist to be annoyed when…

Does the article mention if the 1 in 6 is actually a change vs previous years/generations? I didn’t see anything.

Well, probably wouldn't be able to convince you that the artists playing shows using Euroroack (or Elektron, or TE) in front of bigger audiences that you ever have are "genuinely g…

> The OLED never really shows you anything useful to the act of music-making. Thou art prone to hyperbole! Said instrument of synthesis ("Operator-1") has a step sequencer, mixer, …

Blasphemy! Thou shalt not present such claims without the proper scrolls and ledgers of sales to substantiate. Ist thou not acquainted with the more-expensive instruments of musica…

Under disadvantages: > You can also call the layout code twice (once to get the size, once to do the interaction), but that is not only more expensive, it's also complex to impleme…

So much is bad about it: > After two weeks, I come up with some of my own tweaks that make the algorithm work a bit better. I happily add “built a state-of-the-art library for nume…

I think the explanation for "defund the police" is simpler... they just see the bad stuff cops do on the news, but haven't ever actually needed the cops personally (and few of thei…

Can that be done without disabling JIT for the rest of us? My app would benefit greatly from JIT compilation, and it's always been a bummer that it can't realize its full performan…

Isn't this more of a problem of Google being too permissive about trash browsers on their store than an issue of whether a browser can have its own JIT compiler?

While I agree with that general sentiment, far more than that experienced homelessness over a 20 year period.

They haven't. You can't get a paper into SIGGRAPH that misses relevant existing research.

Various comparisons with plenoxels are in the paper.

> The argument that a cooperative scheduling is doomed to fail is overblown. Apps are already very much cooperative. For proof, run a version of that on your nice preemptive system…

The article matches my experience with SwiftUI [1][2]. For example, AFAICT, it's not really possible to write a usable node-graph editor using SwiftUI due to layout and dependency …

Metal is not a standard graphics API. It's a platform-specific Apple thing. I use it and it's pretty nice, but it's not a cross-platform standard.