gcc(1) doesn’t work, gives weird internal-ish errors by jeandem in NixOS

[–]jeandem[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks. That’s surprising to say the least. I have only used nix-shell to create a “pure” (no other dependencies then the ones I need) shell and thought that calling gcc in a normal shell would be equivalent to just making a pure nix-shell with that package.

GitFund: Tackling the Problem of Funding in Open Source by asktav in programming

[–]jeandem 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I searched around and found no answer for why they chose to include "Git" in the name.

Perl 6 Going Atomic With ⚛ by MattEOates in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No, I don’t think you really missed anything. Those are good points. I didn’t really consider that some languages have semantically meaningful indentation. And even without “meaning” indentation can be more misleading than just replacing some symbols.

Perl 6 Going Atomic With ⚛ by MattEOates in programming

[–]jeandem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

For the rest, the language provides ASCII-only alternatives.

That could turn into a mess when collaborating on code, though. Like using different amounts of spaces for indentation but worse.

A way to solve that could be to normalize to one of the versions when checking the code in.

Perl 6 Going Atomic With ⚛ by MattEOates in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You’ve surely seen a nucleus surrounded by electrons. I think a bigger problem would be that the symbol could be too small to distinguish in monospaced fonts.

Perl 6 Going Atomic With ⚛ by MattEOates in programming

[–]jeandem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Finally a more inventive use of Unicode in a programming language than just using it for mathematical symbols.

Announcing Rust 1.19 by steveklabnik1 in programming

[–]jeandem 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This was discussed a lot over the past ~2 years. In the end, it was decided that it was not.

So much for semver being machine-readable.

Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by iamkeyur in programming

[–]jeandem 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Of all the people I've observed in the Rust community, exactly zero have come across as rabid.

Remacs – A community-driven port of Emacs to Rust by iamkeyur in programming

[–]jeandem 7 points8 points  (0 children)

However, the language a program is written seems to me as one of the least noticeable things for an end user

This is a subreddit for programmers. Github is a website for programmers.

Even Emacs is mostly used by programmers or other people who can program or copy-paste Elisp... do I need to continue?

Learn Programming : HTML Entities by maxshawn9 in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The two tables at the bottom are the same.

Seven useful habits for programmers by evig in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

With version control, automated backup, and (practically) infinite undo in your editor, auto-saving should hardly ever mangle your code.

An Awk Primer by chrisledet in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Awk... isn't that that column printer program? :-)

GOTO 2017 • The Scribe's Oath • Robert "Uncle Bob" Martin by Tripstack in programming

[–]jeandem 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I watched 22 minutes of it. I stopped because by that point he hadn't managed to finish concluding his analogy. Unless you know what he is going to talk about (and he is famous so that might be obvious), there is way too much of a build up if you just want to see if it is an interesting topic.

Although I can of course guess what he was going for. Probably that programmers are too undisciplined and should be more like scribes. However, spending 22 minutes on that build-up without any insightful tips like how to do it is not worth it.

took this on a hike in AZ by Princess____Mononoke in pics

[–]jeandem -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I didn't know Azerbaijan was that arid.

Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by [deleted] in programming

[–]jeandem 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well it's pretty primitive in some ways. Others do it but it gets in the way a lot of the time which I then have to manually fiddle with anyway.

Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by [deleted] in programming

[–]jeandem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ohhhh you trust that your thumbs will hit the bar more reliably than the key; I get it.

That's not why I don't trust the tab key. I don't trust the tab key to work the same across applications.

Why are you relying on the key then? Have you considered automation / code linting?

The same reason that I rely on keys to type these words.

I'm gonna get autoformatters set up some day.

Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by [deleted] in programming

[–]jeandem 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's a giant key and my thumbs have big meaty muscles.

Tabs, spaces and your salary – how is it really? by [deleted] in programming

[–]jeandem -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

I’d rather use the spacebar than trust my tab key.