This isn't true; Ruby has no set literal. Sets are provided by a default gem but there is no built-in syntax for them.
I understand repr for debugging (though imo it's a deficiency of the language that custom objects don't have a repr which lists their attributes), but eq is a property of the domain itself; two objects are only equal if…
I've never understood the appeal of these "define struct-like-object" libraries (in any language; I've never understood using the standard library's "Struct" in Ruby). My preferred solution for addressing complexity is…
I've genuinely never understood this one, especially as a flat-out error instead of a warning. When could not using a variable ever be a bug?
I must be the only person on the planet who likes AppleScript :)
Just took a quick look at Rebol and it looks interesting! I love languages that push the boundary of what they allow programs to "naturally" express
I don't program in Ruby but every time I look at it I see something different depending on who wrote the code and what their personal style is I'd say this is a plus, at least in certain dimensions. One of the best…
Snippets like this: account deposit: 100 dollars. are why I love Smalltalk (and its followers, e.g. Ruby). So much expressiveness, reading like a sentence. And Smalltalk even had the ingenuity to use period as a…
I don't enjoy writing Rust but its perspective on this is at least internally consistent. What are the alternatives for managing cyclic, linked data structures in other languages? In languages with manual memory…
While I think the new site certainly looks appealing and includes a lot more helpful information than before, there's something about the old playful, hand-drawn design that felt more like it embodied the ethos of Rails.
The last point would be amazing, imo. It's unfortunate that, because of history, commands accept and parse arbitrary strings as input instead of formally specifying it like a function signature + docblock. If I could…
I've been thinking of throwing FreeBSD on an old Thinkpad and trying to use it normally. Right now I run Debian, with most of my work happening in Firefox or the shell. Is there anything you didn't even think about that…
Hey, don't be so pessimistic. We'll probably have another serialization protocol by then.
Ah, I understand now. That's a fair point! I agree that the excellent Go tooling is one of its strengths.
Right, but the entire point of my comment was that "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" is not a good approximation of complexity. It can be related, but it is not necessarily true that…
I can hold the whole language spec in my head while I'm programming People love to say this about Go, but it's not something that, like, actually matters (and I doubt it's literally true). A language can be reasonably…
I don't know what kind of stuff you all work on, but for the kind of things I work on if the interface isn't specifically designed and laid out after doing user research on the problem space, the whole project is a…
I think you're confusing look with function. Two things need not look the same to "adhere to assumptions and pattern recognition," but rather need to function the same and have the same underlying conceptual language.…
> it's fun for designers to make up their own UIs It's not just "fun," it's necessary to create an optimal user experience for every particular use-case. Have you ever played two video games which have the same UI? I'd…
To me, "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" isn't a meaningful reason to exclude something from a language, unless it's a hobby project. The job of languages, imo, is to provide…
That's true, I didn't even think of that! That makes it even more unfortunate
True, I was being a bit hyperbolic with "massive corp" :). Employee size isn't everything in determining how "big" an organization is, though. I really just meant that it, personally, makes me feel better to use…
That's true, the only responses we can have to things are positive and affirming.
Frameworks like this are nice if a) you want your site to look exactly like every other site which uses this framework (rare) and b) every use of an element is for the exact same purpose (also rare). I suppose if you're…
Swift is an incredibly appealing language on so many fronts. It has an expressive and fairly robust type system, an excellent suite of built-in libraries, and moreso than many other languages I've used cares deeply…
This isn't true; Ruby has no set literal. Sets are provided by a default gem but there is no built-in syntax for them.
I understand repr for debugging (though imo it's a deficiency of the language that custom objects don't have a repr which lists their attributes), but eq is a property of the domain itself; two objects are only equal if…
I've never understood the appeal of these "define struct-like-object" libraries (in any language; I've never understood using the standard library's "Struct" in Ruby). My preferred solution for addressing complexity is…
I've genuinely never understood this one, especially as a flat-out error instead of a warning. When could not using a variable ever be a bug?
I must be the only person on the planet who likes AppleScript :)
Just took a quick look at Rebol and it looks interesting! I love languages that push the boundary of what they allow programs to "naturally" express
I don't program in Ruby but every time I look at it I see something different depending on who wrote the code and what their personal style is I'd say this is a plus, at least in certain dimensions. One of the best…
Snippets like this: account deposit: 100 dollars. are why I love Smalltalk (and its followers, e.g. Ruby). So much expressiveness, reading like a sentence. And Smalltalk even had the ingenuity to use period as a…
I don't enjoy writing Rust but its perspective on this is at least internally consistent. What are the alternatives for managing cyclic, linked data structures in other languages? In languages with manual memory…
While I think the new site certainly looks appealing and includes a lot more helpful information than before, there's something about the old playful, hand-drawn design that felt more like it embodied the ethos of Rails.
The last point would be amazing, imo. It's unfortunate that, because of history, commands accept and parse arbitrary strings as input instead of formally specifying it like a function signature + docblock. If I could…
I've been thinking of throwing FreeBSD on an old Thinkpad and trying to use it normally. Right now I run Debian, with most of my work happening in Firefox or the shell. Is there anything you didn't even think about that…
Hey, don't be so pessimistic. We'll probably have another serialization protocol by then.
Ah, I understand now. That's a fair point! I agree that the excellent Go tooling is one of its strengths.
Right, but the entire point of my comment was that "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" is not a good approximation of complexity. It can be related, but it is not necessarily true that…
I can hold the whole language spec in my head while I'm programming People love to say this about Go, but it's not something that, like, actually matters (and I doubt it's literally true). A language can be reasonably…
I don't know what kind of stuff you all work on, but for the kind of things I work on if the interface isn't specifically designed and laid out after doing user research on the problem space, the whole project is a…
I think you're confusing look with function. Two things need not look the same to "adhere to assumptions and pattern recognition," but rather need to function the same and have the same underlying conceptual language.…
> it's fun for designers to make up their own UIs It's not just "fun," it's necessary to create an optimal user experience for every particular use-case. Have you ever played two video games which have the same UI? I'd…
To me, "takes up a significant part of the language spec, compiler, and VM" isn't a meaningful reason to exclude something from a language, unless it's a hobby project. The job of languages, imo, is to provide…
That's true, I didn't even think of that! That makes it even more unfortunate
True, I was being a bit hyperbolic with "massive corp" :). Employee size isn't everything in determining how "big" an organization is, though. I really just meant that it, personally, makes me feel better to use…
That's true, the only responses we can have to things are positive and affirming.
Frameworks like this are nice if a) you want your site to look exactly like every other site which uses this framework (rare) and b) every use of an element is for the exact same purpose (also rare). I suppose if you're…
Swift is an incredibly appealing language on so many fronts. It has an expressive and fairly robust type system, an excellent suite of built-in libraries, and moreso than many other languages I've used cares deeply…