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voihannena

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voihannena··on Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests
> <something> rewrite to rust using AI sound like meme now.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48474313

voihannena··on TypeScript 7
Wow, never heard about Sorbet before, looks good! I was a Ruby developer around ten years ago, and never stopped liking the language. I have moved into functional programming since, with strong types like Haskell, and do appreciate compile time type checking nowadays. Sorbet seems like a nice compromise here though!
voihannena··on Look Out for Bugs
I've also noticed that a strong type system and things like immutability have worked tremendously well for minimizing the amount bugs. They can't necessarily help with business rules but a compiler can definitely clear out all the "stupid" bugs.
voihannena··on The Totalitarian Buddhist Who Beat SIM City (2010)
In case the youtube embedding doesn't work, here's the original video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NTJQTc-TqpU
voihannena··on 2k-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
It's such a great book, both hilarious and sad at times. I also went to eBay to search for a copy before realizing I already own the book.