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I'm curious, can you make an example?
POSIX signal handlers don't take an argument other than the signal code, so if you want to handle them gracefully in a stateful app you need a global to communicate the trapped signal to your main loop.
Hello, Developer here. The release was messed up by me having serious git troubles. I had to destroy the repository twice, as the result and old README file with the wrong instructions resulted in everyone having segfaults. Everything will work as expected in a couple of days. Launching such a big project for hundreds (thousands?) of testers is not easy.
So, what are the correct instructions? I followed the instructions on the GitHub and yes, I'm getting segfaults.
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So, what are the correct instructions? I followed the instructions on the GitHub and yes, I'm getting segfaults.
can you `wget https://vlang.io/v.c` again?
coudlnt create file "/var/tmp/vlang0.0.12//vrepl.v"
Segmentation fault (core dumped)
EDIT2: okay, so I redownloaded the whole thing and yes, you fixed that now. But it still segfaults sometimes. For example if I try to pass a `-h` flag.
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I'd happily respond, but this comment is like a greased pig: there's nothing to latch onto. Well, there's one thing: nothing about that project affects YC or HN or us, and we haven't conspired to "lessen the impact". The sinister specifics people come up with! What catches my eye is flamewars on Hacker News, because part of being a janitor is mopping those up. Our deep dark purpose? To have an internet forum that doe…
If we listened to anything you've taught us, you don't do something you're good at for free. So, why do you run a news site? It's certainly not out of the goodness of your heart. My not-so-dark-idea is it benefits Ycombinator in a significant way.
https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...
There's simplicity on the other side too: YC just optimizes for the number of great startups it can fund. How optimizing HN (by keeping it interesting) benefits YC (by helping it fund more great startups) is left as an exercise to the reader [1].
The reason we don't mess around with local optimizations is that they're a bad trade. What matters is the global optimization. Think of the goose that lays the golden eggs. If you have the goose, why focus on an egg or two? Focus on the goose.
[1] Actually I'd better not, or someone will make up something nefarious. The reason is that some HN users end up founding YC-funded startups. And many are startups that might not have gotten started otherwise.
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I can't understand criticising a brand new, v0.0.12 language built entirely by one person of being too small...
A lot of people have been finding the development of the project on a monthly basis. The work that has actually been done might be unsettling to the patrons.
Languages are a marathon, not a sprint.
It's pretty obvious that this person has essentially lied: they have not implemented the complex features they claim while they hype benefits like compile time and lack of non-zero cost features that will have to disappear when they have implemented what they promised. But I think what's more interesting, more telling, is the level of vitriol over 12k/year in patreon subscriptions. Funding in open source is so absurd…
In case the author ever reads this: assuming good faith, the effort and intent is laudable, but you've put the cart in front of the horse by having multiple amazing claims that would take many, many man/years to accomplish by experienced developers, which is why they've been received with a lot of skepticism. Even assuming a great level of skill, the claims a priori are hard to take serious, even before taking into c…
> Now that (part of?) the code has been released, it seems to be little more than a transpiler from V to C, with allowed inlined C, with most advertised features stubbed out. This is a little off-topic but I feel it needs to be discussed. The term "transpiler" that you've used here is a little belittling, not only to V but to other languages which are translated to C. I don't think its fair nor accurate to characteri…
If you don't mind me asking, how heavily did Nim rely on inlined C inside it's standard library and compiler when it was only 3 months old? Or did you guys do something different that early in it's development?
If it included an optional GC, version 1.0 of V would probably be my favorite language and I'll definitely follow its future development.
It's pretty obvious that this person has essentially lied: they have not implemented the complex features they claim while they hype benefits like compile time and lack of non-zero cost features that will have to disappear when they have implemented what they promised. But I think what's more interesting, more telling, is the level of vitriol over 12k/year in patreon subscriptions. Funding in open source is so absurd…
The only thing developers seem to hate more than closed source software is a funded open source project.
(not judging about that case here)
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The only thing developers seem to hate more than closed source software is a funded open source project.
Not in general, but many open source developers do hard work and do sometimes not even get praise, so they don't like it when someone who they feel did not work so hard or not at all and just promised unrealistic things, get's the money. (not judging about that case here)