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Re: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai

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Post by anonymoushn »

mariusor wrote: post #100
anonymoushn wrote: post #95

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Can you only apply via Twitch chat or is there some other venue where you can genuflect before his greatness?

No you can not apply via twitch chat, and again, there's no genuflecting. Stop listening the assholes with axes to grind. You can ask about it in twitch chat and probably get an answer, but I think you must show an interest more than "I heard about this thing on HN, I want to try it NOW".

My favorite part of your reply was the part where you said "There's no genuflecting" and then "You must genuflect at least a little."

I applied via email and mentioned that my team is one of the biggest users of the fanmade language Zig.

Re: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai

#102

Post by mariusor »

anonymoushn wrote: post #101
mariusor wrote: post #100

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No you can not apply via twitch chat, and again, there's no genuflecting. Stop listening the assholes with axes to grind. You can ask about it in twitch chat and probably get an answer, but I think you must show an interest more than "I heard about this thing on HN, I want to try it NOW".

My favorite part of your reply was the part where you said "There's no genuflecting" and then "You must genuflect at least a little." I applied via email and mentioned that my team is one of the biggest users of the fanmade language Zig.

Can you clarify? How is showing interest "genuflecting"?

I understand how open-source has lowered the general threshold for having access to other people's work, but the entitlement your post exudes is a bit sickening.

Re: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai

#103

Post by iml7 »

ReleaseCandidat wrote: post #33
konsuko wrote: post #12

Jai is an amazing language to work with, I highly recommend checking it out once it becomes publicly released. It's elegant, simple, performant, takes all the best parts of Zig minus the annoying parts (like errors on unused local variables) and adds a bunch of super useful game development libraries as well as a built-in string type (which I really missed in Zig). Oh, and the compile times are just a joy, almost no…

I'd have preferred a `fun` (or `fn, if you insist on 2 characters) instead of the Haskell-esque double colon `::` in function definitions to make parsing them easier. And the semicolon after `case` is irritating for me too. But `foo := bar` for a type-less `foo: TYPE = bar` is too much parser-friendly syntax and inconsistent with using a double colon `::` for function types and struct definitions. And inconsistent wi…

+1,fun, fn, have obvious visual effects

Re: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai

#104

Post by paddim8 »

Rochus wrote: post #29
paddim8 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

No language is perfect. There is nothing wrong with making your own that works the way you want a language to work. I don't get people who complain about new languages. Variety is good. Let people have fun.

Innovation is good. There is a tradeoff between the benefit of choice and waste. Duplication is a good candidate for waste.

It is never a waste of time if you're enjoying it and learning from it. What a sad mindset

Re: Focus: A simple and fast text editor written in Jai

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Post by fceruti »

mproud wrote: post #86

> This editor is not designed for editing very large files. Anyone have any GUI (non-CLI) recommendations for editing larger files, specifically text files 10 MB+?

Never tried it, but I read somewhere that BBEdit handles super large files really well.
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