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With all due respect, 166 packages to compile for a 5 line hello-word is so Nodejsy. It is a smell, a red flag. We should learn more from Go and Erlang. I hope the Tide will do.

What kind of fucking bullshit is this? Autism is a spectrum of compensating behavioral patterns that emerge as the way to diminish unusually high emotional stress (which is also a …

> offshoring and massive immigration lowers the cost of labor for the rich This will fail in the long run, because any serious studying require isolated from "society" middle-class…

How could I write this in Rust? fun map f [] = [] | map f (x::xs) = (f x) :: map f xs; And boy, no TCO. What a shame.

> Rust's traits are type-classes. And the functor typeclass in Rust looks like...?

Protobuf does implicitly, via code-generation, what could be done explicitly via defining algebraic types and pattern-marching on receive, a-la Erlang.

Still, we want more things to be boldly and shamelessly borrowed from ML and Haskell * Universal pattern-matching (everywhere) * Obvious syntactic sugar for defining and applying c…

No. They never produced anything even vaguely similar to J2EE, NodeJS or PHP. Old School things, like ML, MIT Scheme, T3 Scheme, Common Lisps and Haskell are unattainable to modern…

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2NI6t2r_Hs among other things. These were places where old-school (with classical understanding, if we follow Robert M. Pirsig) people tried to red…

How abstract concepts, introduced to establish artificial symmetry, could be used to describe aspects of reality which does not rely on any abstract notions whatsoever? Some proces…

Nowadays it cannot even be fully comprehend how places like MIT, Stanford AI lab, Xerox Park research and, of course, Bell labs were islands of intelligence and sanity compared to …

Look ma, communicating sequence processes