Fun is not measured objectively. Different people find different things fun. I enjoy writing code very much (in addition to solving big problems; one can enjoy both).
> And that's on you. Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team there was up-to-date on the latest LTS…
Yeah javac is pretty great. I was doing Kotlin for some time and I was getting very annoying by how much slower and slower running tests and doing full builds became. I thought it was some issue with the JVM ecosystem.…
I mean, what is old? How far along are frameworks these days, and what are companies using? That team was using Java 17. Java 21 was just released and frameworks had no meaningful support for virtual threads whatsoever.…
Kotlin coroutines don't really exist. They're a (very neat) programming trick to support coroutine-like behavior on the JVM which doesn't support coroutines. If you look at the bytecode it produces, it honestly is a…
I think there is something to say for compiling to native code, having binaries in the ~25 MiB range, being able to run in distroless containers, being able to run a web application with less than 100MiB of memory and…
What do you mean by "better than Go for industry purposes"? I don't understand what "industry purposes" means and in what aspects Java is better than Go in your opinion (I can think of some myself, but I'm interested in…
Reddit didn't (yet). Another tech focused community site did though... So I stopped participating in the community.
You can build quite an extensive profile of someone given enough post history. More post history means more details. Especially nowadays with LLMs it's trivial. This can lead to all sorts of issues. One is people I know…
On Reddit and Hacker News, I don't need an email address to sign up. But also I use SimpleLogin to have a separate email address per website/account. Quite necessary these days when personal data is leaked by some…
Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in the age of LLMs) a bit more important…
I rotate accounts on "social media" (mostly Reddit and Hacker News, the others don't interest me) every few weeks or months to make sure not too much of my post history accumulates in one account. I would dislike it…
I cannot identify with this at all. We have Python and Go applications in production, and for Go the vibe is mostly "standard library plus a few dependencies" (e.g. SQL driver, opentelemetry) whereas with Python it's…
Why the hate though? Is someone forcing you to use them against your will? If you need 128 bits of crypto.Rand() for your usecase, you can just use that right?
Can you explain it for those out of the loop?
If this is to be a real, (relatively) widely-used language, I would make some tough choices on where to innovate, and where to just leave things the same. One thing I noticed in the example is `num target`, especially…
Noticed the part where the exact instructions from the Readme were followed and it didn't work?
Thanks, ChatGPT.
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
Yep. On Mac (and Linux, actually) I know of some applications that do that. I also know that on Windows most applications don't do that. I would also never leave un-saved work open on Windows. I was replying to: "The…
Of course, everyone has their own workflow. I won't tell anyone to adjust their workflow. But the exact point I was trying to make is that it's not random apps. It's specific apps that one knows about and how they…
More and more desktop apps are just becoming websites. More and more desktop apps are using Electron rather than some native app. Windows is slowly becoming a dumpster fire in terms of usability and issues. Most games…
Honestly, it feels like straight up plagiarism. When I saw the title, I thought I knew which website was posted because I had seen it before. When I clicked, I saw an unfamiliar website and was surprised that it was…
Correct. Although the performance characteristics are different. An exception in Java generates a stack trace, which is relatively expensive. So not a great idea in un-exceptional code paths that need to perform well.
Fun is not measured objectively. Different people find different things fun. I enjoy writing code very much (in addition to solving big problems; one can enjoy both).
> And that's on you. Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team there was up-to-date on the latest LTS…
Yeah javac is pretty great. I was doing Kotlin for some time and I was getting very annoying by how much slower and slower running tests and doing full builds became. I thought it was some issue with the JVM ecosystem.…
I mean, what is old? How far along are frameworks these days, and what are companies using? That team was using Java 17. Java 21 was just released and frameworks had no meaningful support for virtual threads whatsoever.…
Kotlin coroutines don't really exist. They're a (very neat) programming trick to support coroutine-like behavior on the JVM which doesn't support coroutines. If you look at the bytecode it produces, it honestly is a…
I think there is something to say for compiling to native code, having binaries in the ~25 MiB range, being able to run in distroless containers, being able to run a web application with less than 100MiB of memory and…
What do you mean by "better than Go for industry purposes"? I don't understand what "industry purposes" means and in what aspects Java is better than Go in your opinion (I can think of some myself, but I'm interested in…
Reddit didn't (yet). Another tech focused community site did though... So I stopped participating in the community.
You can build quite an extensive profile of someone given enough post history. More post history means more details. Especially nowadays with LLMs it's trivial. This can lead to all sorts of issues. One is people I know…
On Reddit and Hacker News, I don't need an email address to sign up. But also I use SimpleLogin to have a separate email address per website/account. Quite necessary these days when personal data is leaked by some…
Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in the age of LLMs) a bit more important…
I rotate accounts on "social media" (mostly Reddit and Hacker News, the others don't interest me) every few weeks or months to make sure not too much of my post history accumulates in one account. I would dislike it…
I cannot identify with this at all. We have Python and Go applications in production, and for Go the vibe is mostly "standard library plus a few dependencies" (e.g. SQL driver, opentelemetry) whereas with Python it's…
Why the hate though? Is someone forcing you to use them against your will? If you need 128 bits of crypto.Rand() for your usecase, you can just use that right?
Can you explain it for those out of the loop?
If this is to be a real, (relatively) widely-used language, I would make some tough choices on where to innovate, and where to just leave things the same. One thing I noticed in the example is `num target`, especially…
Noticed the part where the exact instructions from the Readme were followed and it didn't work?
Thanks, ChatGPT.
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
All I can think about is how much power this takes, how many un-renewable resources have been consumed to make this happen. Sure, we all need a funny thing here or there in our lives. But is this stuff really worth it?
Yep. On Mac (and Linux, actually) I know of some applications that do that. I also know that on Windows most applications don't do that. I would also never leave un-saved work open on Windows. I was replying to: "The…
Of course, everyone has their own workflow. I won't tell anyone to adjust their workflow. But the exact point I was trying to make is that it's not random apps. It's specific apps that one knows about and how they…
More and more desktop apps are just becoming websites. More and more desktop apps are using Electron rather than some native app. Windows is slowly becoming a dumpster fire in terms of usability and issues. Most games…
Honestly, it feels like straight up plagiarism. When I saw the title, I thought I knew which website was posted because I had seen it before. When I clicked, I saw an unfamiliar website and was surprised that it was…
Correct. Although the performance characteristics are different. An exception in Java generates a stack trace, which is relatively expensive. So not a great idea in un-exceptional code paths that need to perform well.