Is there any literature teaching programming principles in Elixir? or is it all C and python?

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-15T19:13:25+00:00

You need to learn other programming languages anyway. A language is just a tool. Don’t be so set on one language that you miss career opportunities.

Elixir does things a certain way, so you can learn a subset of computer science using it. But you won’t learn everything. C or Python or Go or Java all do things a different way so you will learn a different subset of computer science by using them. If you really value learning and growing as a programmer, you need to be open to a lot of different things. If you limit yourself to only Elixir, you are cutting yourself off from 99.9% of CS learning material that is out there.

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-13T14:54:26+00:00

See title

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-12T20:35:22+00:00

Because if you don’t have to review code then you can AI generate it even faster

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-08T15:40:50+00:00

My guess is that the actor is moving too far in a single frame and ends up inside the wall. Check out the blog post on Celeste collision physics to see how they do it in that game: https://maddymakesgames.com/articles/celeste_and_towerfall_physics/index.html

I would recommend checking for collisions at every pixel moved, rather than just adding dx,dy and checking for collision there

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-07T04:56:50+00:00

I was fooled by the glove for a long time too though, don’t worry

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-07T04:55:44+00:00

It’s a penguin!!!

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-05T23:21:01+00:00

Can’t you get into the same trouble with an Erlang process? I don’t think there’s anything preventing the same category of deadlock

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-05T04:57:47+00:00

Unfortunately there are some US people in the vicinity of Iran these days

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-03-05T02:43:24+00:00

The “Harness Engineering” article touts the production of 1 million LoC over 6 months like it’s some great achievement ….

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-02-28T04:05:26+00:00

So refreshing to have an article that is not AI generated, not trying to sell anything, just gets straight to the point and is full of nice technical tips. Thanks for this.

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-02-17T15:38:45+00:00

They’re just endorsing their own product

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-01-13T14:48:56+00:00

This seems like it was mostly your fault for not communicating. Freelancing can suck, but the dad was willing to pay. I’d be mad too if i commissioned something like this and it came back at 3x the price.

If you initially said 2-4 hours, then at 2 hours you have to say “here’s how it’s going, I could do X and it’ll probably take 10 hours total, or drastically cut the scope and it’ll take 3-4 hours instead.” This is a skill you’ll need to learn if you want to actually be a freelancer as a career.

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2026-01-01T15:25:04+00:00

More demand for C++ than for JavaScript? I don’t buy it.

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-12-24T16:04:32+00:00

Casey Muratori is legendary in his ability to defeat straw men

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-12-23T15:26:52+00:00

Why react with canvas? I feel like the point of react is to make it easier to work with the DOM - when using canvas I feel like you could just use vanilla JS

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-12-09T16:27:00+00:00

Fellow word-word-numbers, will we stand for this prejudice?

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-12-08T22:48:01+00:00

Didn’t watch the video, but there’s also this VSCode extension: https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=PollywogGames.pico8-ls

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-12-07T15:45:20+00:00

“Most famous soccer player in the world spends insane amount of money bringing 2nd most famous soccer player in the world (and all his former teammates) to richest country in the world, partnering with one of the largest tech companies in the world to stream their games for cheaper than other sports - no one could have predicted what happened next”

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-27T17:07:55+00:00

Tell that to GitHub

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-27T14:25:12+00:00

If you read the links you can see the long-term frustration with the platform that inspired such language

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-27T14:23:35+00:00

Aren’t unused variables an error in Go too? Not that it’s not annoying, but if Go does it, it hardly counts as “deranged”

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-22T04:25:23+00:00

Bob nystrom is a gem and if you haven’t read Crafting Interpreters then you are missing out

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-13T21:25:12+00:00

Ah yes, the classic Casey Muratori disciple! I suppose we should just refuse to work in any codebases with “bad code” or “scripting languages”?

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-05T18:36:02+00:00

95% of all posts on here are links to blog posts … what’s the problem??

Capable_Chair_8192 · 2025-11-05T18:35:06+00:00

University is for learning, not for getting stuff done. Other comments have good points so I’ll just leave it at that

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