Swift support on android [I'm aware of kotlin et al, I'm the kind of guy who never got well with Java]
Rubymotion, dozens of js frameworks, Xamarin...
I dont really see why swift.
Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
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#172native Ruby support for: 1. amazon lambda 2. iOS apps 3. Android apps
Rubymotion covers 2 & 3.
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#173haskell on rails. the amazing static typing, binary compilation, etc of haskell, with a large ecosystem and monolith framework (like rails) behind it. haskell's community's focus on challenging, technical, scientific or mathematical problems has left normal web developers plainly not using it. but as our rails codebase has grown, it's hard to identify refactoring issues outside of obessive and overlapping unit tests.…
I agree with you both that it would be amazing to see this in Haskell, and that Java (which I'm using full time now, after years of rails) is close-ish to what you want. I think this is what Scala is supposed to be, but I'm not sure it has realized that potential. You should look into Kotlin - you'll still miss Haskell's type system, but it's a good bit nicer than Java, and has a lot less history.
so what's `django` for java ?
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#174An immediately consistent NoSQL opensource database, so a CP system, that is persistent, gets horizontal scalability right and is popular enough to be used in production with confidence.
hbase?
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#175You know how the iPod is now this tiny little clip on chip with earphones? I want a phone like that. No app, no "smart this or that" - just a phone, with an contact list. The thing can to voice calls and SMS ONLY. It's a real cellular phone, but without all the crap, and a monthly use cost of under $20. Make that, and you'll see a revolution.
What kind of revolution are you expecting? Loads of people already have smartphones and I don't see them switching, and you can already get a flip phone for < $10.
This point is a Trump/Brexit type phone - none of the built up cruft and corruption of a "smart phone". If is just a phone. The "revolution" will be the massive loss of revenue the popularity of such a device would bring, which consumers could use as a purchase weapon to say "no more spy hardware!"
Re: Ask HN: What “missing” technical solution(s) do you wish existed?
#176You know how the iPod is now this tiny little clip on chip with earphones? I want a phone like that. No app, no "smart this or that" - just a phone, with an contact list. The thing can to voice calls and SMS ONLY. It's a real cellular phone, but without all the crap, and a monthly use cost of under $20. Make that, and you'll see a revolution.
Build your own: https://www.seeedstudio.com/RePhone-Kit-Create-p-2552.html#
And that "kit" is a smart-ish type phone, which cost over 2x what I said the price should be for the final product. The point is a non-smart device as a form of protest against the ever-present spy hardware everything is becoming.
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#177A solution for game assets building. Ideally it would be possible to build all assets (maps, models, textures, binaries) in a game from source files to the format that's distributed to people. Unfortunately due to the build times for certain things like maps it's not feasible to rebuild everything before every release. Combined with the fact that the files are relatively large means that we can't store everything in…
For unity, there was Unity Asset Server. Not sure if it's still available/supported.
More generically, I'd suggest you check out Mercurial with the Largefiles extension.
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#1781 device with multiple Airplay points that can output to multiple amplified speakers. Price would determine how many Airplay points / speakers exist (1 device for 4 speakers, 1 device for 8, etc...) Bonus points if the device has the amplifiers built into it. In my house, I have multiple Airport Expresses for the sole purpose of connecting them to different channels on an amplifier to to stream different audio source…
Couldn't this be simplified by just having an airport express + a set of powered speakers (or appletv if there is a tv too) in each room/location?
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#179I want a simple bug tracker that's hosted entirely within my VCS repository, with a fully featured web interface. There are a few abandoned projects like this, but they're all CLI-focused with view-only web at most. I want something better than just keeping a TODO file, not worse.
So basically bugseverywhere with a web ui ?
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#180haskell on rails. the amazing static typing, binary compilation, etc of haskell, with a large ecosystem and monolith framework (like rails) behind it. haskell's community's focus on challenging, technical, scientific or mathematical problems has left normal web developers plainly not using it. but as our rails codebase has grown, it's hard to identify refactoring issues outside of obessive and overlapping unit tests.…
I agree with you both that it would be amazing to see this in Haskell, and that Java (which I'm using full time now, after years of rails) is close-ish to what you want. I think this is what Scala is supposed to be, but I'm not sure it has realized that potential. You should look into Kotlin - you'll still miss Haskell's type system, but it's a good bit nicer than Java, and has a lot less history.
did you switch to java for work reasons or because you wanted to?