Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by djur » Sun, Dec 07, 2014, 11:51 PM UTC

Pinn2 wrote: post #28

I find the .gitignore a good way to gauge the quality of a repo. This one does not exhibit quality.

What criteria do you use to assess "quality"? In any case, this .gitignore is almost entirely the standard GitHub setup for Visual Studio projects.

https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio...

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by azinman2 » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 12:23 AM UTC

I'm seeing a lot of people in comments talking about how they wrote something similar or other tools exist. Can someone explain their use cases that don't involce SEO or some other kind of thing that's "bad"?

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by kagia » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 12:06 PM UTC

One place I can see this really shining is as part of a script that generates fixtures for Django apps.

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by listic » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 1:09 PM UTC

atlantique wrote: post #25

listic wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Does it work on Linux?

Yes!

Thanks. I asked because it's written in C#.

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by scott_karana » Mon, Dec 08, 2014, 5:27 PM UTC

Pinn2 wrote: post #28

I find the .gitignore a good way to gauge the quality of a repo. This one does not exhibit quality.

What exactly do you think this .gitignore is lacking?

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by Pinn2 » Fri, Dec 19, 2014, 1:16 AM UTC

djur wrote: post #31

Pinn2 wrote: post #28

I find the .gitignore a good way to gauge the quality of a repo. This one does not exhibit quality.

What criteria do you use to assess "quality"? In any case, this .gitignore is almost entirely the standard GitHub setup for Visual Studio projects. https://github.com/github/gitignore/blob/master/VisualStudio...

Well, that's a knock on /github then. The entries should be as minimal as possible, in number and in individual length.

Re: Show HN: Rant, a procedural text generation language

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Post by Pinn2 » Fri, Dec 19, 2014, 1:16 AM UTC

scott_karana wrote: post #35

Pinn2 wrote: post #28

I find the .gitignore a good way to gauge the quality of a repo. This one does not exhibit quality.

What exactly do you think this .gitignore is lacking?

Quite the opposite of "lacking"--way too much.