JoshuaScript

52 karma · joined April 13, 2018

JoshuaScript··on How porting to TypeScript solved our API woes

https://quicktype.io/ is a nice solution

JoshuaScript··on Programming language ray tracing benchmarks project

You should see a performance boost in the Haskell implementation by compiling with GHC's LLVM backend[0]. Another Haskell ray tracer ran 30 % faster than the native codegen this way[1].

[0]https://gitlab.haskell.org/ghc/ghc/wikis/commentary/compiler...

[1]http://blog.llvm.org/2010/05/glasgow-haskell-compiler-and-ll...

JoshuaScript··on Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?

Are you mainly talking about clustering?

JoshuaScript··on Ask HN: What technologies did you learn in 2018?

I'm curious if there's anything in particular you prefer in Crystal over Nim. I'm considering both right now.

JoshuaScript··on Firefox 64 Released

If you want the Chrome look with Firefox, check this out: https://github.com/muckSponge/MaterialFox

JoshuaScript··on Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

Honestly, I'm using it for it's marketability. I haven't yet found it particularly useful.

JoshuaScript··on Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

I haven't tried it, I'm afraid.

JoshuaScript··on Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

That's literally in the title. It says METASearch engine, not search engine. I have never claimed it was a search engine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasearch_engine

JoshuaScript··on Show HN: I Built a Metasearch Engine with React, Redux, Express and TypeScript

Thanks, it started out as regular, valid JS, then I figured I might as well convert it to TypeScript, and I did so (perhaps too) quickly. I do plan to add stronger typing later.