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Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by cmdlineluser »

yeck wrote: post #40
xwowsersx wrote: post #2

Not sure if you're looking for things as "trifling" as programming languages, but I do wish more people knew about Nim. It's fast, statically typed, reads more or less like Python, has a great effect system, etc. It's a joy to use. I've been working through writing an interpreter in it: https://youtu.be/48CsjEFzyXQ

I was using Nim for some of last years Advent of Code problems. I was mostly liking the syntax. Was a bit bother by the standard library have a snake case and camel case reference for each function (if I'm remember that correctly). At the time nimble also required me to have NPM to install the the Nim package manager, Nimble. This was not ideal, but looking at [the nimble project install docs]( https://github.com/nim…

There's also `atlas` that was released with Nim 2.0.

http://nim-lang.github.io/Nim/atlas.html

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by rcarmo »

QuadrupleA wrote: post #26

Bottle.py: uber-fast and simple python web microframework, about 3x faster, saner, and more memory-efficient than Flask in my experience: https://github.com/bottlepy/bottle Fossil: distributed version control and much more in a single executable, from the creators of SQLite: https://fossil-scm.org/

I still use Bottle for all my starter projects. It’s just unmatched in terms of bang for the buck.

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by greatpostman »

aredirect wrote: post #119
greatpostman wrote: post #22

temporal.io

First time to see that (now it went to my forever open tabs :) ) How is your experience with that?do you have it self-hosted or use their offering?

My opinion is temporal is a step function change in building workflow software. It allows for very complicated processes done simply

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by czottmann »

jjgreen wrote: post #92
mirthturtle wrote: post #62

Unpopular, at least compared to cars: e-bikes. - costs next to nothing to charge - fast and fun to get around - never pay for parking - cheap maintenance - hauls groceries easily - good exercise

[flagged]

You mean roads?

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by swiftcoder »

aredirect wrote: post #124
swiftcoder wrote: post #73

In case you don't fancy visiting all the links: - Tarantool is some sort of in-memory DB with optional persistence - Red is a programming language that has made the odd syntax decision to use {} for strings and [] to define scopes - U++ is one of those all-encompasing C++ frameworks like QT - Lazarus is a Pascal(?) IDE - And FASM is a toolkit for building assemblers I'm struggling to find the common thread across the…

Thank you for summing it up. The common is things from developer's perspective I feel they should be checked out (not just programming languages)

I guess I'm looking for a hint as to why this selection of items is particularly interesting to you. These cover a pretty wide spread of topics, and for folks who aren't well versed in each topic, they might be better served by evaluating the standard option in that field (Redis, Qt, etc) before they dive into the weird alternatives

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by firebaze »

velominati wrote: post #18
edw519 wrote: post #12

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pick_operating_system This has accounted for about 90% of everything I've built since 1985. Pick code generates my side project: https://eddiots.com/1

“ It is named after one of its developers, Dick Pick.[2][3]” you can’t make this stuff up!

I know, not reddit, but I simply can't resist:

> Pick was originally implemented as the Generalized Information Retrieval Language System (GIRLS) on an IBM System/360 in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick [...]

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by corethree »

gaganyaan wrote: post #122
corethree wrote: post #106

Earlier quoted context omitted.

virtualenv is the python way. For things like redis and other external web stuff, docker is the standard.

Sure, that works. Or I can have it all in a single shell.nix file that covers everything and is super simple to use. It's great for handing off to coworkers that don't usually use Python.

It's not simple. The nix programming language is like untyped ML. Most people aren't used to it and even if you are familiar with it it gets hella hard to read. Learning curve is huge.

One docker file and a poetry file works just as well. And is simpler. It's literally the same thing but using os primitives to manage the environment rather then shell tricks. Makes more sense to me to use a dedicated os primitive for the task it was designed to be used for.

Additionally docker-compose allows you to manage a constellation of environments simultaneously. This is nowhere near as straightforward with nix.

I love nix but being honest here. It's not definitively the best.

The biggest reason right now to avoid it is adoption. Most people won't know what to do with a shell.nix

Re: Ask HN: What are some unpopular technologies you wish people knew more about?

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Post by dang »

ivanjermakov wrote: post #103
User23 wrote: post #46

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Urls become links, except in the text field of a submission.

Any explanation to way it's a thing?

This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html.
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