Spyke
wer2reply

I'm working on it. Just waiting till Christmas.

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lemmy.ml

Guix is the superior version if NixOS. It is less bloated and more performant while also more stable.

At least that is what I think it is. Never heard of it before. But I love Guix it is my personality.

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ShadyGrovereply
lemmy.world

They are very similar concepts, but Guix is configured using Scheme (specifically GNU Guile), instead of the crazy nixos language.

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feddit.org

I might give it another try. Third time's the charm. I'll wait for you guys to have a decent wiki tho.

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lemmy.cafe

Yes, but also I don't have much programming experience or even viable beginner project ideas. Also interested in polygonal art but lacking a project doesn't help with that either.

So add in other issues and it really ends up as

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I mostly do untextured low-poly stuff so I'll think I'll leave that one to the brofessionals. It doesn't seem like a good starting point.

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iii
mander.xyz

Languages without a GOTO statement are so passé

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But in Lua, goto is just a table with a bit of syntactic sugar.

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Haskell, where you can't even goto because it doesn't really work that way

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Epherareply
lemmy.ml

Hmm, it didn't turn into a mail link for me on the Lemmy webpage, so I left it, but yeah, I guess some clients might make it a mail link...

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While you're here, have you heard of lapis, the lua web dev framework? I like it and that means that you have to too!

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For any people from the future who may be here, this is the only mention of the framework, from what I can see, so far.

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GDScript is actually pretty good - it's similar to what TypeScript did for JavaScript, but for Python. However, IMO it's still worth using C# for larger projects

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lemmy.world

Hey, I know this really obscure programming language that's totally cool. It's called Python. You should try it sometimes.

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I had a colleague 20 years ago choose RoR for a multi-million dollar hospital software project despite the fact that he was the only programmer within 150 miles with even a rudimentary knowledge of it. I say "multi-million dollar" because that's what it ended up costing to develop it; the only revenue it ever generated was an initial $60K from the client, and even that ended up being refunded after three years and a system that still didn't work.

I wasn't on the project myself, but I did get to sit in on a client meeting where this guy said "but we've written six times as much test code as application code" and expected that to somehow mollify the client.

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lemmy.world

Is C obscure? Everyone acts like its old and obsolete, yet its still the compilation target for most new languages, it seems

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I'm a D developer. It's mostly like C and C++, but with a kind of optional garbage collector (which I might get rid of in the future through a custom runtime), and decades of hindsight in language development. No precompiler, no mandatory header files, a very nice to use template system, and a very powerful metaprogramming system. The catch? It's obscure enough for it to not have a lot of support libraries, so you have to spend the time saved from pulling your hair out from 1970's language design on developing your own solutions (then pull your hair out from undocumented OS features).

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Yaaa, I’m ready to start a fight, started as a deb linux sys admin. Turned 🏴‍☠️soft engineer, RRR, RubyonRails w/ React and a desire to learn Rust 🦀

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Yeah, I developed a few weeks ago a devouring passion for groff. Does that count?

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lordnikonreply
lemmy.world

Im not fluent in Perl i can only write it not read it. But only when it comes to Sendmail milters.

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9point6reply
lemmy.world

Given every perl application I've ever had a browse of the source code of:

Perl is a WORN language. Write once, read never

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I mean why do i need to read the language isn't that what the computer suppose to do?

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Rust is too mainstream, I prefer running my Idris programs on NixOS

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I personally think The language I created from scratch is the best, it uses the exact syntax as the English language, how does it work with ambiguity you ask? It's simple really you do it the same way as in a legally binding contract, you define every single definition until it makes perfect sense.

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sh.itjust.works

Is there any other obscure programming language than haskell though?

Are lisps obscure?

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I'm sure my skills in Linden Scripting Language from my time on SL way back in the day might come in handy someday...

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