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I remember being 11 or so and installing this homebrew onto my DS... I had NO IDEA what Linux was at the time, but DSLinux helped me deepen my interest in computer science. So, tha…

In my humble opinion (I'm still new to Haskell), the best way to do that is to contribute to existing Haskell tooling. That's something I'm looking into doing myself. It would be g…

You make a valid point about the added complexity of combining parser combinators with functors and other concepts. Honestly, if I were writing a compiler, I would go with your app…

Correct, that function doesn't have to parse immediately, but it does have to be aware your monad exists. This isn't a problem if you're the one writing the function, but if you're…

Yes, but if it we're talking about parser monads, then usually you can't apply a function directly to a parser's result without either: 1. Being within the same monad. For example,…

I learned Haskell this year. After reading this article, the conclusion I drew was, "Cool, so I can `fmap` over my parser now and transform what I parse using functions." To answer…

Thanks for sharing this great article. It explained lenses very clearly, without me having to read a paper first.

Another reason is that imperative languages have a lot of business inertia around them. It's expensive to rewrite existing code or switch to a new language, and most businesses can…

I read "Start Small, Stay Small" in 2021. More modern advice is on YouTube instead of books. Try channels like Noah Kagan, or Microconf.

Seeing so many new languages running on WASM is exciting. I wonder if we'll see a language with a just-in-time WASM compiler soon...

I maintained a project like this for several years. My genuine advice to anyone considering creating an open-source library: either keep it super small forever, or make it closed-s…

I wonder why tree-shaking wasn't always the default for, say, JS bundlers. If a compiler/analyzer knows what the entry point of a program is, as well as any symbols it exports to t…

Tim Pope has a plugin for that: https://github.com/tpope/vim-obsession

Thanks for the sources. I can concede that most people do not support a reduced or lower-funded police presence. As for the second part: someone simply choosing to be a police offi…

I am not an activist, and this is not a manifesto. I don't understand why you brought that up. Anyways: The fact that most modern countries have police is not evidence that police …

> Police are a necessary part of modern civilization. Full stop. Are you sure? Lots of causes for crime (i.e. poverty) can't be solved by arresting or shooting people. I am convinc…

I'm busy learning art. All of the things I want to make (mostly games) will require good art, so this is as good an opportunity as ever to focus on that.

Yeah... This is the same sort of thing you see with, say, ActivityPub, that makes it a massive pain, if not totally impossible to implement it in a statically-typed language.

How is the existence of NodeJS a bad thing?

Comments like these are absolutely useless and contribute nothing to the conversation at all. There are benefits making a language, and people's goal doesn't always have to be "get…

"Easily" isn't really that true here.

I wish you would put as much effort into listening and understanding other people's experiences as you do trying to find excuses for racism.

The inspiration is OCaml. I've used it a lot, and some of its best features, like sum types, are missing from Dart (and many mainstream languages). As for the goal, I just want to …