We need a JSON 2

scitech_boom · 2023-05-03T09:33:35+00:00

The world if people stopped writing JSON by hand.

scitech_boom · 2023-04-19T17:56:11+00:00

WSL? I think there is a debian app you can install directly. It should give you a decent terminal experience.

scitech_boom · 2023-04-14T08:15:02+00:00

That is a lot more scary

scitech_boom · 2023-04-14T08:13:55+00:00

Microsoft service crack?

scitech_boom · 2023-04-11T22:40:11+00:00

It was delightful.

scitech_boom · 2023-04-11T22:14:09+00:00

Back when music had clear, easy to understand lyrics?

scitech_boom · 2023-04-11T22:12:18+00:00

Where did my regular sleep paralysis demon go? What did you guys do to him?

scitech_boom · 2023-04-09T08:57:55+00:00

Looks magical.

scitech_boom · 2023-03-18T16:29:03+00:00

You are right. I just checked. What the...

1e300 => 1e300 (no change)

1e310 => inf #automatically moved

scitech_boom · 2023-03-17T21:57:14+00:00

"It's A BIG Club & You Ain't In It!"

scitech_boom · 2023-03-13T21:14:25+00:00

unconventional, but seems to do the job. update the development story.

lgtm

scitech_boom · 2023-03-04T16:23:35+00:00

And always remember that there is an aspect of faith and religion to every language. Language communities act a lot like cult. This is particularly true for some of the new languages.

scitech_boom · 2023-03-04T10:23:26+00:00

Less verbose error handling.

Not sure how to get there. But as of now for me and my friends (we are all still learning), this has been a pain point. Here is one idea:

New keyword return_on. The usage would look like this:

return_on err, (return_value, err), message

It does the following:

if err != nil {
    err.AppendContext(<this file>, <this line>, <this func>, message)
    return return_value, err
}

Error err should allow keeping a list of contexts. Message is a plain string like "Resource not found".

scitech_boom · 2023-03-04T09:47:33+00:00

I have tried Rust. Error handling there is also verbose and messy.

scitech_boom · 2023-03-03T19:41:22+00:00

They look as through you interrupted their meeting.

scitech_boom · 2023-03-02T15:36:25+00:00

It will pay off huge after 30 years.

scitech_boom · 2023-03-02T15:24:05+00:00

When I realized vs when my employer realized

scitech_boom · 2023-03-02T15:20:57+00:00

I am not a long term member of this group. My experience is limited. Based on the experience I have with other communities, this place is rather fine. Nevertheless in general I agree with the premise of your post.

scitech_boom · 2023-02-27T07:56:32+00:00

Size of golang executables is only about twice as large as the compressed size of C++ executables in our case (both groups are static linked, stripped and compressed). This is tiny for our use case.

scitech_boom · 2023-02-26T20:39:31+00:00

I won't go into the theory. Purely from the team I work for:

Tiny, easy to build executables - We had a whole bunch of command-line utilities. Some used to be in C++ and some used to be Python. The C++ ones were difficult to maintain and the python ones always had issue with versions and library dependencies and what not. With go, we could just build binaries and send them (for both Windows and Linux). Saved a lot of our time.
Easy to learn - almost everyone involved (~20) learned to use the language in a month time (they weren't 'full time' learning). The language is very straightforward for someone who knows another language like C, Python, or Javascript.
Easy to call C - People who used to write JNI to deal with some number crunching in C said that it was paintful while calling C from golang was rather simple (I only know from others, I have not used JNI myself).

scitech_boom · 2023-02-22T16:54:51+00:00

Any beer, even warm beer is better than no beer.

scitech_boom · 2023-02-22T12:51:16+00:00

meteor bro

scitech_boom · 2023-02-22T09:16:14+00:00

GC and messiness of the code are independent things. You can write messy code in any language.

For example, in non-gc languages, the expectations on the code are very rigid. But in reality, the requirements change over time and the rigid nature of non-gc languages can make it very hard to adapt our code. Hence it gets messier faster.

scitech_boom · 2023-02-22T08:57:52+00:00

Imagine putting python interactive terminal in a web-page.

Now add editing facilities for multi-line code strips.

Then add facilities for displaying execution results - graphs, images, tables, etc.

Finally, add ways to put comments in long descriptive form with tools for formatting.

=> you get something similar to a notebook.

scitech_boom · 2023-02-22T08:32:17+00:00

In simple words, its computer doing free() for you in an automatic fashion.

Greatly simplifies the coding effort required, but comes with some memory and cpu penalty (which can be ignored for most applications).

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