felipeccastro

6 months agodiscuss

It might be the opposite. Python apps still get written despite the performance hit, because understandability matters more than raw performance in many cases. Now that we’re all code reviewers, that quality should matter more, not less. Programmer time is still more expensive than machine time in many cases.

felipeccastro

10 months agodiscuss

I've used XFCE for a 2011 laptop, it was about as fast as LXDE but better polished. Windows was unusable there, and XFCE made the computer feel brand new. Only the modern websites that would still cause slowness, but the OS was great.

felipeccastro

10 months agodiscuss

I have noticed that static type checking often enables people to build systems more over-engineered than they could without it. It's not a coincidence that factory-factory-impl happened in Java, not Ruby.

felipeccastro

10 months agodiscuss

The train of thought is “what is everyone using? I’ll use that too”

felipeccastro

11 months agodiscuss

It's not just small typos, it's the ability to explore apis, the standard library, go to definition, quickly catch any error at the location it happens, not having to memorize large models and their field names, the list goes on.

I can work without an LSP, but when I'm searching for a new language that would be used by a team (including Junior devs) it's hard to justify something missing the basics of good DX. I haven't tried it with Cursor though, it might be less of a dealbreaker at this point.

felipeccastro

11 months agodiscuss

I agree with all your points but last I tried, the VS Code LSP was terrible. It’s hard to justify a new language when even the basics of autocomplete, inline errors and go to definition don’t work well. Part of the reason was that any function can be called on anything, which pollutes the autocomplete list.

Has the LSP situation improved yet? Similar issue with Crystal lang, which I enjoy even more than Nim.

felipeccastro

last yeardiscuss

Not sure why this was downvoted, but I’d be very interested in learning how well does pglite compares to SQLite (pros and cons of each, maturity, etc)

felipeccastro

7 years agodiscuss

What you describe looks like the "install PWA" (Progressive Web Apps) feature coming to Chrome. It is available already in Chrome 72 if you enable a flag (#enable-desktop-pwas) - then, when visiting a PWA site (try https://mobile.twitter.com) you have a menu option to install it like an app.

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