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Life is Tetris

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I write software (C++) for a living.

#Emacs #Prolog #Erlang #SelfHosted

  • pro-communalism
  • anti-consumerism
  • pro-holisticism
  • anti-monism
  • pro-libre software
  • fan of #Plan9 and #HaikuOS

anti-witchhunt, see https://stallmansupport.org/

  • A road to Lisp: Why Lisp

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  • I have come to think that Lisps are meta-progranming-only languages.

  • Anthropic’s bug-hunting Mythos was greatest marketing stunt ever, says cURL creator

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  • Well, we have used C/C++ in applications instead of higher-level languages. AI could atleast be used to port them, even to, say, a slightly higher-level language like Vala for GNOME apps. Automating the putting of lipstick on a pig and the fattening of pigs isn't very useful if horses are the better choice.

  • Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

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  • Also, which native UIs do people like coding up? Most UI toolkits have JS bindings, don't they? So only HTML/CSS is the bad fit?

  • Claude is an Electron App because we’ve lost native

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  • They also bought the Bun JS company, didn't they? Maybe they actually can improve the spp a bit by replacing Node with Bun.

  • Sudo maintainer, handling utility for more than 30 years, is looking for support

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  • There has been the "4opens" criteria, that has been more on point than free/libre/open source.

    In hindsight, defeating corporate and AI piggery might have needed single-maintainer closed source with open protocols. Software components? Maybe it would have led to the compound document model instead of the app model, architecturally enforcing openness.

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  • "The code I produce using AI is mine."

    Isn't it actually of the people on whose code the LLM was trained on?

  • PoC - Use Matrix instead of emails for logins

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  • Linus Torvalds tries vibe coding

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  • I think it is intellectual laziness to do Python just for its ecosystem when saner options abound.

  • Good, Fast, Cheap: Pick 3 or Get None

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  • hmm. Are you atleast getting credit for fixing all that?

  • A Month of Chat-Oriented Programming - CheckEagle

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  • LLMs defacto seem resource guzzlers, and are continuously overloading websites.

  • Zig: Migrating from GitHub to Codeberg

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  • This is great. Overdue if you consider the values they espouse. Quite feasible for a compiler project to ignore the network effects of Github. Is their Discord usage next :-)

  • Programming peaked

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  • There is https://tauri.app/ coming up to let Electron app developers debloat their offerings.

  • Other ways of curating than following communities

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  • Thanks. I'd not want to add a 3rd thing, RSS, into the mix, so following from Mastodon might be a workaround. Ideally, I would "follow" in Lemmy itself!

  • Other ways of curating than following communities

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  • True, I am looking for "get threads boosted by this account". If Mastodon did threads well, I would have stayed on it. I wouldn't care for it at all if I could also "follow" accounts on Lemmy (and the accounts that matter were on Lemmy).

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    Other ways of curating than following communities

  • Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

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  • Do try Delta Chat, and Sourcehut if you have more time. They use e-mail as a transport very well.

  • Let's Make Sure Github Doesn't Become the only Option - Edward Loveall

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  • I believe relying on Github for an account, rather than on a not-yet-existing code commons organization, is the trouble. E-mail accounts are used left and right, and Sourcehut apparently makes it easy to collaborate on code via e-mail. Delta Chat even makes chat and webapps work over e-mail!

  • I'm getting started with functional programming, which language would you recommend?

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  • My ₹1. It may depend on what you plan to write in it (for fun). The BEAM sounds great for long-running processes, but not as much for point tools; Erlang and co supposedly run slower than Python, which isn't fast either.

    My other ₹ ;-) if you stick to the BEAM: OCaml sort of runs on it, as there is the Caramel project to replicate it (https://caramel.run/). One of the Erlang creators also ported Prolog to the BEAM (erlog), as well as Lua (erlua) and Lisp (LFE). Elixir is probably great, as it is inspired by Ruby (I found Ruby very pleasant, other languages have so much semantic noise).

    Freebie! The BEAM inspired an inspirational design for parallel programming, the Pony language. I am somewhat sad development slowed down, it is a Rust killer.

  • Unix Co-Creator Brian Kernighan on Rust, Distros and NixOS

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  • By the vague looks of it, he has tried Rust for something he would use C for. His impression of Rust's utility in that domain seems unsurprising.

    Beyond that

    I used to not question why we build anything other than "system software" in C/C++. Once I questioned that, I quickly got past the "Why not Ada/D/etc." stage and reached the "why is so much of large software written in mid-level languages" stage. For anything bigger than, say, a Unix CLI tool, it probably is, and has always been, wrong to use anything at the level of C (C++, Ada, D, Nim, Rust, Zig, etc.).

    This choice of language level for "application software" seems to be a commercial choice. The software commons is using such languages probably because contributors want to hone their job-oriented skills. It got better with Python and Ruby uptake in open projects. But, efficient, safe but simple languages, say, OCaml and Erlang, have been available for decades. Crystal is also looking good right now.

  • Can't decide if end user index access should be 0 or 1 based and if END index should be inclusive

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  • Ruby/Crystal seem to have P .. Q for inclusive ranges and P ... Q for right-exclusive ranges.

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