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Cyclohexane

@ cyclohexane @lemmy.ml

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West Asia - Communist - international politics - anti-imperialism - software development - Math, science, chemistry, history, sociology, and a lot more.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • I preferred the Internet that isn't driven by non-genuine posts by profit driven influencers. I am glad that those people don't like mastodon so they don't ruin another platform.

  • Bluesky continues to soar

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  • And you'd still have federation issues, so doesn't solve OP's problem.

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?

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  • What's so good about it?

  • Which protocol or open standard do you like or wish was more popular?

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  • I never really quite understood IPFS and why it gets used where I see it today. What problem is it solving?

  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • Why is Matrix mentioned more often than XMPP in self hosted forums?

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  • This makes matrix even less attractive to me lol. But you're right, that's a very good point.

  • Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?

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  • Any examples other than ocaml? From my understanding, ocaml's type strength may only be found in a couple other languages. Haskell, scala, and maybe Rust. Any others?

  • Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?

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  • I won't remember everything, but one very important things comes to mind:

    in Typescript, it is very difficult to assert on a type (let me know if you're not familiar with what I mean by this and I can explain further). In OCaml, this is trivial using pattern matching.

    Why would you need that? The idea of a type system is it doesn't let you apply a function on a structure without the structure being of the right type. But the lack of type assertion in TS makes people follow hacky workarounds, which defeat the purpose of type system.

    There are a couple of other things, like immutable types by default, automatic tail call optimization, functors enabling higher kinded types, etc.

    Also in ocaml, you don't have to annotate any types on any variable or parameter, and you'll still get full type protection.

  • Is TypeScript a fad or is my manager delusional?

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  • The only valid argument against typescript is that it is too similar to vanilla JavaScript. It does not go far enough. We need type systems like Ocaml's.

    I suppose you can also complain about needing a build step, but I find this silly. There are so many tools that make this easy or automatic.

  • Podman is a daemon-less alternative to Docker, but with Rootless containers, grouping containers in pods, and systemd integration. What do you think of it?

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  • I personally liked podman's networking a lot more, but my issue is that it is not well documented. I hope that improves.

    May I ask which networking issues you had?

  • It's Hard to Stay Motivated

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  • Windows is just not ready for this stuff. Most of this stuff is built for Linux. Linux is THE server OS. And windows is painful for developers too, so there's less solutions for it.

    You'll be a lot better off with Linux for self hosting.