danmur

Jsonnet is pretty nice but the library support isn't quite as good. There are some nice libraries for yaml that do round trip processing for example so you can modify a yaml programmatically and keep comments. Yaml certainly has some warts (and a few things that are just frankly moronic) but it deserves some credit for hitting the sweet spot in a bunch of ways.

I wonder if it will ever be practical or economical to have humans and machines driving together on the roads we have now though. Maybe we'll skip that step and go to robot-only roads with more stuff built into the actual roads.

On Musk, he doesn't need PR so much as to keep his mouth shut for a while and try and deliver on some of his BS instead of spouting more.

It's very effective. Both times I've wanted to give them my money. But mac only, geeze

They just haven't done the "now monitise it" step in the vibe-coding journey.

Blue windscreen of death you say

Glad to see diamond inheritance being a problem in other fields

The goal isn't to use AI, though, it's to be productive. Maybe for you AI + writing support tools to improve your workflow makes you more productive and that's great! For me, for the kind of work I'm currently doing, I'm more productive in other ways.

Why dumb down your work worse because the machine can't understand it?

> From the perspective of the traditional server business, such a developer is unfortunately often seen as rather helpless—someone who needs assistance with everything, can’t run their own database, and has no idea what a nameserver is.

Developers who have no idea about how things work (like nameservers and databases) are pretty helpless generally, regardless of whether they call themselves cloud-native developers or not.

That isn't always true, there's plenty of times where companies push features that users don't want. No Chrome users have been clamouring for more ads and more invasive tracking, for example.

I've used graylog the most so that's what it looks like to me :P. I like how you can do a bunch of extraction stuff right there in the query interface though, that's awesome. It seems like a very thoughtful UI.

I'm not sure why you wouldn't set up your own mirror regardless, it costs peanuts and it's much faster

That picture at the beginning is a high quality troll, I spent ages looking at it before I read the caption: "The team set up traps in vegetation areas like this one to capture Mount Lyell shrews."

It's a bit more effort but it just can't be beat for documentation.

The DSL (and associated IDE support) is about the only thing I like about puppet

Check out ImHex, I think that's an example of where it works.

I certainly don't claim to be an expert, but I have a hunch that getting to the point where performance becomes a significant factor (in the success or failure of a product) isn't going to be about the choice of language. I also think you're vastly underestimating the performance that good architects can get out of ANY (primary) language through good system design. Good design vs bad design makes the biggest difference in my experience, at least from a technical standpoint. Probably just nonsense though as you say.

I don't think using Zig over Python is gonna have the biggest impact in making your next big company successful. It's a drop in the ocean compared to the quality of people you have to actually design and build it.

Microsoft are expert at hiding the strings. I prefer obvious strings if there have to be strings attached.

I'm charitably reading it as "if I must develop on a Mac, this is a great way" :)

Why have a title at all?

It's absolutely insane how many core devs argued against change there

The language has grown on me a bit. I initially hated it but a lot of my pain was not actually the language but the lack of good docs for the standard library.

Still struggle with the tracebacks though. It's painful when things go wrong.

My (somewhat sarcastic) comment was just that Apple hardware is more expensive than Linux/Windows hardware. If you use Linux then I would say the docker experience is quite good. I wonder if Linux hardware was an option; seems odd to require running stuff under docker but also force people to use macbooks...

Spent all the budget on Apple hardware

I love functional languages but I'm not sure how JavaScript could be considered as a functional language (at least if functional means something like haskell, or elm). Functions-as-values isn't enough, otherwise Python could be called a functional language.

Probably better than paying money to test an IDE :P

If I was I must have read it more than a few hours ago because I don't remember it :)

I found this odd too. It reminded me of a book I read ages ago, sci-fi fantasy where there is a species that is very long-lived but they have a finite memory. Maybe if your memory is a year or two long then GitOps would seem to mean k8s deployments automatically out of git, rather than all the other things.

(I think it was by C.S Friedman but I don't remember which one)

I've never looked at mine