Tcc even supports that with `#!/usr/local/bin/tcc -run`, although I don't understand people who use c or go for "scripting", when python, ruby, TCL or perl have much superior ergonomics.
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My biggest gripe with DB is not that it's late, but that it quite often cancels the trains. If you decided to go by regional trains with 1-2 hops instead of direct (bc you can go much cheaper with Deutschlandticket), there's a high chance that at least one of your trains get cancelled and things will not go according the plan.
Somehow doesn't happen in most other countries I lived. These things are easy to deal with with a bit of redundancy, which as I've heard is lacking in Germany these days.
I've had much better experience with trains in Russia despite much harsher weather conditions, much larger distances and much older cars. This problem is absolutely fixable, just let the trains go around problematic sections with redundant routes.
I think this is important and for a more sophisticated compiler design I find Ghuloum approach very appealing [1]. I.e. build a very simple subset of the language from top to bottom and then grow the meat gradually.
The really great book following this approach I've discovered recently was [2]. Although I find both C and x86 not the best targets for your first compiler, still a very good book for writing your first compiler.
[1] http://scheme2006.cs.uchicago.edu/11-ghuloum.pdf
[2] https://norasandler.com/2024/08/20/The-Book-Is-Here.html
But it's really hard to tinker as a single hacker when a German legal troll firm can come for you for linking Google fonts on your web page (i.e. transferring IPs so breaching privacy)
It took me to move to Germany to figure that privacy is a spectrum, and I, despite being a crazy on privacy and security, actually don't want that much.
I've been to a German factory where robots could not distinct between humans and objects bc Datenschutz.
My colleagues had 3 bikes stolen in a week bc we have no CCTV cameras.
Privacy definitely has costs, and not only for business, but for regular people in daily life. It should, as anything, be balanced against costs of doing business, people security concerns.
Same goes for security: few private cctvs are ok, massive coordinated surveillance and chat control not ok. Everything is on spectrum and is a trade off.
Unlike Perl, OCaml is AOT compiled in a very efficient machine code, has a good static type system and has a good concurrency support. Both are not very mainstream.
It kinda doesn't work these days. One of the points of DEI was to eliminate the nepotism hiring (and it's kinda good if the hiring wasn't so broken), so these days referrals don't mean shit unless you're referred by someone high-ranked enough.
I've literally seen people being autorejected after being referred by team-leads these days.
> there's multiple standard libraries
Scala has a far more fragmented ecosystem with Cats, Scalaz, Zio and Akka. C++ and Java have a bunch of stdlib extensions like boost, Guava, Apache Commons etc.
> many documents are barely more than type signatures
Can be said of most of Java, Kotlin, Scala, Erlang etc etc. Just compiled javadocs, sometimes with a couple of unhelpful lines.
> data structures aren't printable by default
Neither they are in C++
I think the real reason it's not popular is that there are languages which solve more or less the same problems of system programming but look far more familiar to an avg. programmer who was raised on C++ and Java.
Bigger native ecosystem. C#/.net integration is a double edged sword: a lot of libraries, but the libraries are not written in canonical F#.
A lot of language features F# misses, like effect handlers, modules, GADTs etc.
Derivers are a library yes, it's pretty widespread if you need derive functionality, and it can derive basic functions. Proper link:
https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_deriving?tab=readme-ov-file...
There are devivers and a Format module for pretty printing.
In Germany tax-prep industry is huge, there is a huge network of tax consultants plus paid online services like taxfix and smartsteuer.
The only countries I lived which didn't require you to declare the taxes were Russia and Georgia, mostly because 13% and 20% flat tax rate respectively.
Any country which does have complicated progressive tax system would require you to declare taxes at least at some cases.
I guess the same will happen with signed apps.
Exactly my experience. I feel like LLMs have potential as Expert Systems/Smart websearch, but not as a generative tool, neither for code nor for text.
You spend more time understanding stuff than writing code, and you need to understand what you commit with or without LLM. But writing code is easier that reviewing, and understanding by doing is easier than understanding by reviewing (bc you get one particular thing at the time and don't have to understand the whole picture at once). So I have a feeling that agents do even have negative impact.
The games by Loki Software are still running great for me. It's a matter of skill and discipline. SDL, OpenGL and alike are very stable.
The problems start when developers start to use lots of small third-party libraries and depend on particular versions of them, but IIRC on Windows it's also solved by simply shipping all the libs with the game.
By many things at once: Datenschutz, (over- and premature) regulations, bureaucracy, laws favoring old ways (e.g. broadcasting licenses for streamers), active sabotage from workers who don't want to learn things (and can't be fired) etc.
But all stems from risk averseness and active unwillingness to learn new ways.
As you say, (some) things did happened, but way too slow and way too little. Compared to its peers or especially developing countries German Digitalisierung is a joke, a not so funny one.
Tho when the median voter is 55 and national motto is "that's how it was always done" and "Pensions are secure" - I don't put much hope. I still remember the outcry when the digital health cards were introduced.
Being a self-employed is a living hell in Germany, as well as receiving any money outside of employment. Esp. if money are small (but > than hobby money, 500 euro iirc) and don't justify the hurdle of dealing with Finanzamt, tax pre-payment, possible regulations with upfront Formulars etc.
Maybe what you are talking about is true for some very pour Asian/African countries, but many middle-income countries have more reliable public transportation, than Berlin. Not to mention developed ones and China.
This can't be further from the truth. This is probably written by an American, and US is a very car-centric, but German infrastructure is a shitshow.
Also healthcare is absolutely stiffled by bureaucracy. I have a friend who is a cardiologist. He says that exactly half of his work time is paperwork. And not just paperwork, but German paperwork, where you manually type PDF fields one by one, then print, then sign, then scan and so on.
I have to use IntelliJ due to Kotlin codebase, but I'm still more of a fun of Emacs and I don't like Idea that much. I think IDEs somewhat lack the power that simpler tools have, which is automation.
One thing I miss from IntelliJ is programmability. That's why I still use Emacs on workplace for anything outside of Kotlin (git, grepping, note-taking etc). I even edit code in Emacs from time to time when it's easier to write a Lisp function which will batch edit code than doing keyboard macro.
Another thing I'm missing from IntelliJ is determinism. Everything is asynchronous, so the same combinations of actions can lead to different results, making automatisation painful.
Saying that one true Rus is Kiev and not Novgorod or Moskow is rather a modern Ukrainian national myth. All and neither were true Rus.