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... but the people are retarded
Many jobs are more difficult than hacking on Angular bs all day, it’s not like most devs implicitly deserve the high pay they enjoy here in the States.
Not to mention, most people are far more likely to pay for a movie than for a piece of software, excluding video games.
I understand your point if you are speaking in literal terms about just simple cons cells, but in practical Lisp/Scheme code, you don’t really rely on just the basics to do things.
I think there’s a hyperfocus sometimes on the simplicity of the core of lisp, the apply/eval balance, but it’s quite possible and often easy and convenient to perform normal programming tasks with these languages as well.
Sum types and TCO with -prod is a really nice feature as well. Not supporting TCO was a huge bummer when I tried Nim, and many other languages tbh.
I already use Go sometimes, so picking up vlang was basically free, and I haven’t had time to do any big substantial projects with it, but I wrote a little irc bot with it and had a good afternoon hacking on it.
I heard Florida was letting people in classrooms after just a few hours of supervision.
If the education crisis isn’t addressed, this country will be absolutely decimated in another thirty years. A level of brain drain hitherto unwitnessed in modern times.
If I was raising a young child now (mine are in their late twenties) I’d be strongly weighing the pros and cons of suggesting they go abroad for higher education, and I’d certainly be hiring a tutor rather than trusting the K12 system. Not everybody can afford all of that, despite the money being taxed already. We could lower the military budget by a percentage point and fix all this tomorrow, if we really wanted to…
Couple notable games haves used it. Haxe is a pretty mature ecosystem as well, from what I’ve heard.
I spent my thirties working and unwinding with flash games with my kids, brings back nostalgia thinking about those nights.
If they can keep that aspect of it together, I’m sure they’ll be fine. I think the name change is a bad choice, but time will tell.
Does Javascript still have a use for functions without async/await?
This is just a repackaging of an age-old argument, imo.
When they invented the screw, it did not preclude the nail. /shrug
What’s an example of a language that does this by default?
People get degrees for leverage in wage negotiation, and to further their career. Advising against is anti-worker, imo.
The real crime is unattainable education.
They’ve eaten good food, but they may or may not know anything about starting a business.
Paul Graham hasn’t started a company in several decades now. Just because he has proximity with a lot of people who have, doesn’t mean his advice is still sound.
He was competing with Perl shops, for crying out loud!
The scene has changed. A lot. Seek out lessons from success by yourself, directly. Ask local, search local, find the people successful near you in your industry and just ask them. Many will tell their tale over lunch, and then you’ve received personal, actionable advice for the price of a good meal.
I think he wrote himself into a tight spot though, and I’m happy with the result. Part of me thinks the second act could’ve been broken down into maybe like 0-1000, 1000-5000, and then the final act could’ve been essentially as it was, stripped down a bit. It felt to me like he crammed a little too much worldbuilding into it and couldn’t draw on the resourcefulness and resilience of humanity that dominates the first act. But it makes sense in context, because they’re not in such dire straits in the second half, and are approaching the whole issue from complex standpoints of religion and meaning and societal archetypes.
I surely couldn’t have done better, I know that much.
The big revelation about how he got there also felt nearly translucent in how obvious it was when it was revealed.
I hope he writes a couple more books though, if I can ever get some grandkids outta my kids, Weir’s books will be in their collection for sure.
Are we to assume he actually knows anything other than neuro-grift?
I’m not buying it.
In ten years, maybe Go. Long, LONG way to go in adoptability to push against Java shops.
They want you back in the office to make the management happy, to make the corporate rent make sense, to make the banks happy, to feed the giant machine whose primary purpose is 100% unequivocally NOT getting stuff done (tm)
If your team isn’t getting stuff done remote, investigate a protocol for communicating the business and product needs to the developers, and maybe skim some commits.
If you are being threatened with back to office and you don’t want to go, make them fire you, use your resources, and I’d estimate there’s about a 95% chance most of you can find a higher paying position elsewhere, or at least equal pay & remote-first. The world is changing, don’t let them play tricks on you.
I’ve fought with DC traffic for twenty years, I’ll be damned if I’m ever going to show up in an office for less than a client-vendor situation or L5/6+ all hands. If it’s on fire, you better call my work phone and make sure my deposits are up-to-date.
I know it’s tougher for the younger bucks out here, and that loans and rent and everything might tip the scales a little further away from you. Do your best, do what you can, but I strongly recommend putting up the fight for more comfortable work arrangements.
If we’re all gonna be obsolete in ten years, they might as well be paying us right and speaking to us right for the next nine!
There’s trampolines in almost any programming language to implement recursion if necessary, and python has itertools to build what Scheme calls streams, for arbitrary computation.
I’m not sure you deserve the downvotes, I think the way you phrased it might make people think you’re out of touch.
I mean, I can appreciate your trying to take a nuanced approach, but it is quite literally and quite clearly an advertisement.
We live in such an insane, reactionary world these days and I find it very refreshing to hear from people who've clearly thought hard about what they're about to say/write.
Sometimes, I even wish HN worked this way. I wish the front page was about 10x as slow, and that we could discuss things for a week or two instead of a day or two. It'd be messier, but I think the fruits, separated from the weeds, would be juicier.
Y’all crack me up sometimes.
my @num = (1, 2, 3);
my $num = 25;
say $num[1];
So that last line prints 2, which is obvious by looking at it, but can be difficult in more complex code when you’re overloading names by the way the variable is accessed.
Everything in perl is a rabbit hole of details, as an aside.
Anyhow, I just appreciate that the symbols always mean the same thing. Takes a load off of my brain. Like a single character type annotation, kinda.
https://github.com/llaisdy/beam_languages
See you down the rabbit hole!
I spent many years in perl, so I’m of the opinion visual indicators for datatypes are actually a good thing at the point of instantiation/composition.
Not sure how to properly word it
I preferred the alpha syntax, which was ML-inspired, but it’s decent in its current incarnation.
I’ve always though the beam was really nice for building programming languages, and clearly that is true, as there are now more than a dozen targeting it.