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mark38848··on A critique of package managers
Where's the discussion about package sets? Always comparing yourself to Javascript, Java, and friends is obviously easy
mark38848··on Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time
Just use optparse-applicative in PureScript. Applicatives are great for this and the library gives it to you for free.
mark38848··on What's the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it?
Yes, it's written by some disgruntled dev or somebody trying to be funny
mark38848··on Zig Error Patterns
It's still complete dogshit not to be able to have data there. Odin is much better here, iirc
mark38848··on Zig Error Patterns
Yes also the function syntax is weird and ugly because functions aren't expressions.
mark38848··on Why is the Rust compiler so slow?
What are obnoxious types? Types either represent the data correctly or not. I think you can force types to shut up the compiler in any language including Haskell, Idris, PureScript...
mark38848··on Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012)
Yeah. I am a backend dev these days because it pays more. Backend people have this obnoxious attitude of looking down on frontend without having any idea what it entails. Also demonising V8 and glorifying the JVM for some reason. In my experience frontend challenges around animation for example require a lot more reasoning than most backend tasks.
mark38848··on (On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling
Why not change everything along with it? It can only get better
mark38848··on Spaced repetition systems have gotten better
Why does everybody want to learn Japanese? What makes Japanese so enticing? Why not Mandarin or at lead Spanish?
mark38848··on The Awful German Language (1880)
I suppose like the general American of today, he has just never really learnt an n-th language (where n>1).
mark38848··on Mill as a direct style build tool
Does it support source dependencies over stupid jar files?
mark38848··on Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust
Why not use a fast language like C, Odin, Hare or Zig?
mark38848··on Understanding React Compiler
Observables aren't magic. They're just shit.
mark38848··on Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
It has no "selling" points. If it had any pecuniary cost nobody would use it.
mark38848··on Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
I mean you still use Java, so you seem to really like sticking to your tools!
mark38848··on Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code
I use astronvim and still don't know how to get Purescript to work.
mark38848··on Elixir Anti-Patterns
Why wouldn't you feel bad for the person having to write Go after you? Makes no sense to me
mark38848··on Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust
Bun would be cool if it worked. At least it's not written in Rust so there's that.
mark38848··on Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test
I think Minecraft was originally written in Java and rewritten in a good programming language (i.e. not Java).
mark38848··on Ballerina: Functional programming framework for front end web development
PureScript is arguably the prettiest functional programming language and it compiles to JS (or Erlang, or C++, or Go, or Chez Scheme, or Kotlin, or C)
mark38848··on Gio UI – Cross-platform GUI for Go
Anything related to Java dying is a win in my book
mark38848··on GPT-4o
So good!
mark38848··on Garbage Collectors Are Scary
There is no programming language as scary as Java
mark38848··on Weaver: An ergonomic CLI parsing library for Roc lang
PureScript also has them (as a library).
mark38848··on Borgo is a statically typed language that compiles to Go
How the fuck do you release a language without enums?
mark38848··on Figma OSS Alternative
What? Smartphones are faster than computers from a few years ago. Smartphones have been running Fortnite since at least 2018. I really wonder what your designers ask from you that is more demanding than that.
mark38848··on Figma OSS Alternative
Yeah. If they say it's not possible, they probably are just lazy. Concerning animations that's what is missing from Figma and I think for similar reasons they're missing from many products.
mark38848··on Figma OSS Alternative
Good to hear from somebody that values design. Without people like you, all websites would look like amazon
mark38848··on Hardest problem in computer science: centering things
Gaps in doors are such an American thing.
mark38848··on My MacBook Setup (the 2024 version)
After fiddling with it for months, potentially
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