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The startup time of .NET is nothing like JVM's in my experience.
A .Net terminal "hello world" takes a good 2 or 3 seconds on my computer. Yay... :-/
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Yeah, I have noticed that as well. Newegg is another one that went down the "Market place" approach and is why I didn't list them. I just use Micro center now. A little bit less selection, but not much and they will order almost anything for you and get it quickly.
Agreed on Newegg. I am currently dealing with two separate issues for items sold by 3rd party. Thankfully, both items were low cost so even if it ends up being a loss, it is not the end of the world, but I used to swear by Newegg. By comparison, Ebay is all third parties, but they have some way to discourage bad actors. Newegg and Amazon are a disappointment lately. I never thought I would not say it these days, but…
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I would say that Scala on the JVM is comparable to F#.
Only to an untrained eye. F# is a firmly rooted in ML language family history, only making concessions where necessary due to the fact it's running on the CLR. Scala is a random walk of language design space, with different ideas either working or ending up complete trainwrecks, and the fact it's missing this clean ML core makes it a painful language to pick up coming in from F# (or in fact most other statically type…
While I haven't used F# much, as a professional OCaml and Scala dev, Scala is hands down the more powerful language. OCaml isn't bad, but it leaves a lot to be desired.
A little offtopic, but if OCaml got rid of its module system, added type classes, polymorphic functions, higher-kinded types, multi-core support and removed objects (not that it matters that much), it would be my dream language.
Basically, I want Haskell without the dogma. Though, I guess that's what unsafePerformIO provides!
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Nah. Walmart totally makes multi-million dollar business decisions with less diligence and critical analysis than random HN posters. I think of this as the social media Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect. You see comments from folks with zero insight and no doubt no specialized knowledge of the relevant industry, recognize that they are likely just making an off-the-cuff comment without any value, open the next thread where it…
Because no multi-million dollar business has ever made a bad decision..
As a former Jet employee, this makes me pretty sad. I took the job at Jet because I wanted to learn more about F#, coming from a Haskell background, and I was happy to find that my coworkers were all really smart people and the codebase, while far from perfect, was written using functional concepts, and avoided the "writing C# in F#" trap. I left Jet partly because there had been talks of absorbing Jet into Walmart,…
Repeat after me: "JVM is not Java." Clojure and Kotlin are the perfect proof of that. If you actually look closer, JVM is a pretty cool piece of technology. Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever.
I'm not saying it has zero importance, just less than the 90s/00s.
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Only to an untrained eye. F# is a firmly rooted in ML language family history, only making concessions where necessary due to the fact it's running on the CLR. Scala is a random walk of language design space, with different ideas either working or ending up complete trainwrecks, and the fact it's missing this clean ML core makes it a painful language to pick up coming in from F# (or in fact most other statically type…
I mean, considering that Scala has a much more powerful type system than F# and you can actually implement FP concepts like monads, functors, etc makes it arguably more FP than F#. While I haven't used F# much, as a professional OCaml and Scala dev, Scala is hands down the more powerful language. OCaml isn't bad, but it leaves a lot to be desired. A little offtopic, but if OCaml got rid of its module system, added ty…
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There are class complications that make using the Walmart brand potentially problematic, though. People with college degrees who would shop at Whole Foods or Costco or boutique retailers look down on Costco but wouldn't have those associations with Jet.com. I'm sure Walmart has researched this but keeping both brands would seem worth it from that angle.
> Costco I'm almost certain you meant to say Walmart here.
https://wiki.lspace.org/mediawiki/Sam_Vimes_Theory_of_Econom...
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> Too bad that it is doomed to be associated with Java forever. Maybe because it's in the name ️
Eh, I don't think JavaScript is really associated with Java these days.