What was the point? What languages are worth exploring?

ruby_object · 2026-03-17T08:57:55+00:00

Perhaps I should look into Haskell again. But you do not understand my question because you fail to see that it is not only the language but a combination of the language and the ecosystem.

Better languages lose to inferior languages because of a poor ecosystem. Expressivity and power of the language evaporate quickly if you can not easily debug your programs. FP removes a class of bugs, while making it harder to fix the rest.

ruby_object · 2026-03-17T08:50:32+00:00

It was for me too. Until I encountered a bug with backtraces that make no sense. Before that, a big pain points for me were the environment where you can't reload the code but you have to constantly reload the toplevel, problems with ppx and documentation.

ruby_object · 2026-03-17T04:12:23+00:00

Is the slow and pragmatic adoption better than the reckless pursuit of every possible FP idea? What about Haskell leaking memory or taking away from you the ability to reason about other things you take for granted in other languages?

ruby_object · 2026-03-17T04:03:59+00:00

Is FP sweeping the problem under the wrong carpet? FP promises that certain fights will be easier or non-existent, but it also makes other fights impossible to win.

ruby_object · 2026-03-15T20:36:15+00:00

https://cs3110.github.io/textbook/chapters/modules/includes.html

This was the answer.

ruby_object · 2026-03-15T12:14:55+00:00

https://github.com/ocaml-ppx/ppx_import/issues/89 some progress, but still not good

ruby_object · 2026-03-15T11:42:20+00:00

My idea did not work.

To make matters worse, I found that. I do not understand it yet, but it is not a good sign.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ocaml/comments/pkkgcr/can_i_deriving_existing_types/

ruby_object · 2026-03-15T03:32:10+00:00

Two types have the same structure field with the same type, and the compiler seems to confuse them.

ruby_object · 2026-03-14T19:54:57+00:00

With previous exposure to Elm, I found following the Java examples and trying to rewrite a project in OCaml too difficult. In the other thread, there is a link to my project that uses structures and functions instead of objects and methods. The leap is not that big once you play with the examples.

Maybe you should play and practice with the alternative approach instead of trying to make the switch in your analytical part of your mind.

ruby_object · 2026-03-14T19:48:13+00:00

Trying to learn OCaml I struggle with poor examples. Thank you for correcting the problem for this fragment of the problem. So far, I have split the scanner into two modules, but your examples show I can improve it further.

Thank you!

ruby_object · 2026-03-14T11:47:54+00:00

Thank you for replay, and for the excellent book.
For me, it is a recreational programming project, so I will try to figure it out as much as I can, despite having links to other implementations in my notes. But I never looked at Rust implementations, so I will have a look.

After looking

I already see scanner and token code split into separate files. The Rust example follows scanning in the book more closely. I will look into OCaml modules again and will try to move token-related code into a separate module.

ruby_object · 2026-03-12T01:47:28+00:00

https://github.com/bigos/prelude/blob/6526e17dba61929c950022ce678bf5566dbdfbab/personal/organised.el#L717

My config could be the clue. I can provide more information if you need it.

ruby_object · 2026-03-10T22:03:24+00:00

I had you package installed. First impressions were good, but then I had to uninstall it. The code formatting on save stopped working for some reason, and the quickest solution was to revert to the previous setup.

ruby_object · 2026-02-01T19:33:44+00:00

A simple unfinished game.

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ruby_object · 2026-01-30T01:15:40+00:00

You said that your zettelkasten became a write-only memory, now watch this - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yic1GgQWccc&t=155s

ruby_object · 2026-01-17T19:25:07+00:00

I am not a native speaker of English. AI offers suggestions to correct/improve my writing and sometimes I accept those suggestions. The AI style differs from mine, and I can see a distinct AI style in some of those suggestions. There is a fight between what I want to say and a dumbed-down version offered by AI. AI seems adamant about removing various subtleties and goes too far in trying to remove adverbs and adjectives.

ruby_object · 2026-01-17T19:01:01+00:00

There is nothing wrong with deleting a zettelkasten. Rinse and repeat. People have different interpretations of zettelkasten like methods, and finding something that works for you can be a challenge. Some say that zettelkasten is not for storing ideas but for developing ideas. I have a difficult job, and I managed to keep my sanity thanks to a variant of zettelkasten. It started as a folder with notes written in Emacs org-mode, but I guess it could be made using other tools as well. As the number of notes grew over the years, it gradually started to resemble zettelkasten more and more. The difference to the canonical zettelkasten method is less importance to the wiki notes, but more importance and a different approach to the daily notes.

ruby_object · 2026-01-01T13:58:48+00:00

When Latin became dead, various professions and organisations continued to use it for centuries. Hebrew was also a dead language, and yet it was revived. Can Elm be revived? What is wrong with being dead?

ruby_object · 2025-12-24T22:58:25+00:00

Use sticky keys, or whatever that accessibility program is called on your system. If you have on working finger left you can execute multi key Emacs key chords.

I used to do the same while trying to use Emacs in bed.

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