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Oh, interesting! I'm not the most up-to-date on this, but I don't think I was all wrong about what I said. My understanding is that cars with CCS adapters currently cannot use Tesl…

Tesla's charger was proprietary so other manufacturers couldn't use it. Meanwhile CCS is an open standard that anyone can use. What's changed is that last year Tesla decided to pub…

Just in case you're not aware, Soros conspiracy theories are a dog whistle for the less-publicly-acceptable "jews control the world" conspiracy theory. Of course it's not racist to…

As someone who is not listening in on the flake stabilization process, and who just wants to use Nix my thinking is, what's the alternative? To me it looks like people can either b…

On the positive side hooks provide a lot of options for declarative abstractions. I expect that to a large extent the built-in hooks will be used as building blocks for new librari…

Thank you for these points! I think that parallel execution is especially appealing. I edited the article to mention that.

I'm happy to see this kind of detailed criticism. I would be happy to use a new tool if it is similarly general, and has a declarative style. Other commenters brought up Bazel, whi…

I have been meaning to spend some time with redo! https://cr.yp.to/redo.html

Good point - cross platform issues are a concern. I've noticed in the past that OS X machines tend to run older versions of Make (unless the owner has installed a newer version wit…

Noted! I wanted to provide concrete examples, and I did not want the post to become too long. So I focused on one kind of project.

I know that "Go vs Rust" has been written about before. The perspective I wanted to take with this post was to examine specific ways I think Go could be improved.

Install the npm package, mori. You can require it in a NodeJS project, or grab the file mori.js from the installed package and drop it in a web browser.

I consistently see the same problem. That is exactly why I use the word "functional".