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niktaron Ask HN: For which language do you want a GUI builder ala Delphi / VB?

IMHO, It looks quite good: https://pyuibuilder.pages.dev/

But Delphi/Lazarus is much more. It's component based programming with GUI as part of this ... component philosophy.

niktaron A language that supercedes C, but with a borrow-checker

May be this is what you are looking for: https://vale.dev/

It looks like AIX CDE ...

niktaron Ask HN: Does Dart beat Go in Go's best of features?

Sorry, IMHO, But You want to explore concepts/idioms/paradigms but restrict youself by two programming languages very similar nature (ok, Go is not OOP in common sence).

Just look at different world: Clojure, Haskell, Ocaml, Erlang (maybe Elixir). Even Smalltalk shows you true priciples of OOP which are far from Java/C++ and close to Erlang processes/actors.

These languages force you to think different.

BTW, Elixir can really help you in Web projects because it has Phoenix LiveView framework.

Seaside framework for Pharo (Smalltalk) is very nice as well.

niktaron Ask HN: Best OS for Old Laptops?

I'd recommend q4os distro. I tried it on old toshiba chomebook with 2Gb RAM and it works quite well. Trinity desktop environment looks like old Windows. And another good alternative is Crunchbang++ (CBPP). OpenBox windows manager requires you to have alternative approach on UI a bit but it works very fast. I personaly use CBPP on my laptops (both, old and fresh enoght).

niktaron Ask HN: Firefox connection problems after enabling DoH?

+1 last update in Linux mint brings this issue.

niktaron Free solo coder – Programming without safety equipment

Hi. Python has typing. I use it exactly how you describe. First stage of module I develop is usually without types. As soon as I feel some stabilization - I think twice :) then add types and 'mypy' checks my module. My colleague says this idea came to python from TypeScript. Maybe it's true. I don't know TypeScript. BTW, Python's typing has Union, Optional, Any ... and I don't know equivalent type options in Go.

niktaron Build a Linux Distro for Startups

See Calculate Linux. Team who created Calculate did it for them own startup which is not related to IT. They just had some Gentoo experience and didn't want to pay Microsoft.

https://wiki.calculate-linux.org/

niktaron Ask HN: Linux Alternative to macOS?

Elementary OS ... maybe. Or Endless linux ...

But in fact, there are not real alternatives.

How to compare OSX which is operating system/environment and Linux which is OS kernel.

niktaron Ask HN: Python Code Jumping in Vim?

Use https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim

It works very well