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This is roughly my take. Between Nim and Rust, I have no purpose for Go that isn't covered by a language that's flat-out better.
They’re not better.
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I bet you HATE the Go language name.
I myself just don't understand why any reasonable person would pick an existing common word for a project in 2022 instead of using the plethora of name generators that can give you something original without even trying. But like, people that work for Google surely know something about search term collision. Or just don't care about making anything else that has "Go" in the query gets confusing results. Which is an o…
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It's cool stuff but unfortunately I need icons.
How about Notcurses? https://github.com/dankamongmen/notcurses#readme demo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcjkezf1ARY
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What exactly is hard to switch in/out of Rust, context-wise...?
You get interrupted every time a post is made about Go and you have to comment on Rust's superiority.
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I did. Rob Pike said that Go was purposefully made similar to C (and by extension other languages similar to C), in order to be familiar and get new engineers who are already familiar with C or C-like languages to become productive without having to learn too much. And while I can totally understand how that makes sense in the intended setting, I don't consider that pleasing at all. "Pleasing" for me implies that I l…
I think your critique, if you examine it closely and deeply, is fundamentally an arrogant one. Sorry for the harsh claim, but I truly do believe this. You are a new developer too. Everyone is. When it’s easy to learn something, it’s easy to relearn it, and it’s easy to learn things around it (because you don’t devote as much brain to the language). All languages should target new, dumb devs, because all devs (includi…
And I absolutely reject the notion that an easy to learn programming language is better. Especially so because Go was made “easier to learn” in large parts by its similarity to C, so it’s really easier for people already and only familiar with C, and that was explicitly stated by the creators.
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> creators were ignorant/lazy/negligent/drunk/lost a bet/etc. This is not a well-intended comment, but then why didn't they add generics at the start? It's not like it was a surprise to anyone even remotely familiar with PLs that they will have to retrofit it sooner or later. Also, function-scoped defers instead of surrounding braces-based one? Come on...
Not adding generics, if you dig through the archives, was a pragmatic choice. Partly it was to help the process of language design, partly it was project management, and partly it was due to technical constraints. Generics is a big, complex feature. The team was prioritizing getting the most immediately valuable features shipped first, and didn’t want the introduction of generics to hit their limited resources too ha…
There is zero point in postponing a feature so that you can build a community, which you will burn down later. It’s not a startup that has to be ready in X months or it will fail.
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You're absolutely right. So I do without 30 FPS. We're all up this tree where we want all the features we're used to and we're willing to put up with software bloat and insecure software and sprawling supply chains to get it. I'm not. So I start with something minimalist and do what I can within it. One of my inspirations is http://akkartik.name/illich.pdf
Does this mean that you're rendering at 1fps, 10fps or something? Is it an artificial limit you put on rendering? Do you have button animations at 30 FPS?
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I'm having trouble thinking of a single example of a language, library, or piece of technology that is not either an acronym, a name of something that exists, or a combination of such names. Be it an object (Flask), a concept (Scheme), a letter (C), a person (Sinatra), or an animal (Python). Maybe we need explicit namespacing in English? I'll start saying stuff like "programming languages colon colon ruby" so people…
erlang
I've seen the charm suite on HN before, and everytime I see them I wish they had bindings to other languages. I'm just not interested in Go, but I'm really interested in learning to create ssh applications. Its an application runtime with a lot of potential for the dev space, but almost no quick-start frameworks!
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I feel like I've seen TUI's from a completely different angle, including full use of modifier keys , full mouse support, etc. Its amazing how one persons perspective can completely disagree with anothers. What did you mean by the "OS task switcher becomes useless" ?
TUIs cannot have full use of modifier keys as the full set of modifiers is not sent to processes running in a terminal. As for the OS task switcher, if everything is a TUI then you only have one app, which is your terminal, and so your OS task switcher cannot help you switch between apps anymore. You have to switch between windows belonging to the same process. It’s the same problem that you run into by doing everyth…
I have hyper meta super and ctrl work, sent through to my curses app. Are you referring to something like gnome or something else intercepting the keys ?