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·15 दिन पहले·discuss
I do, and frankly I enjoy my day more when I don't feel like I'm being a jerk, even towards a robot. But mostly as part of a follow up message.

I also think it signals that I was happy with that solution in the ongoing conversation.

On the other hand, I'm much more sloppy with my writing.

The token cost is irrelevant, tool calls and reasoning probably dominates.
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·15 दिन पहले·discuss
Well, what if it "just" increased white collar productivity by 1.5x, what would that be worth?
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Sure, but this is an example from the article, and pertains to sum types in general, not just Maybe.
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
I don't think so, where's the extra information in the Zig example?

In Rust, which is arguably also a low level language, it looks like this:

    enum Option<T> {
        None,
        Some(T),
    }
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·2 माह पहले·discuss
Do you really prefer this:

  fn Maybe(comptime T: type) type {
    return union(enum) {
        value: T,
        nothing,

        const Self = @This();

        pub fn just(the_val: T) Self   { return .{ .value = the_val }; }
        pub fn nothing() Self          { return .nothing; }

      }
    }
Over this?

    data Maybe a = Just a | Nothing
continuational
·3 माह पहले·discuss
What's open about OpenRouter?
continuational
·4 माह पहले·discuss
I'm working on Firefly, a programming language for full stack webapps:

https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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·5 माह पहले·discuss
To find slop in this submission, you don't have to look any further than the very first picture.
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·6 माह पहले·discuss
Got 50% in first try, the computer only made two guesses, one right and one wrong, and passed the rest.
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·7 माह पहले·discuss
Not long ago I was looking through programming language sites to figure out how to best introduce the language I'm working on.

ruby-lang.com stood out with a text in a big font:

Ruby is...

Followed by a paragraph about what makes Ruby special. I think that was an exceptionally simple and natural way of introducing something as complex as a programming language.
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·7 माह पहले·discuss
A programming language for the web: https://www.firefly-lang.org/
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·7 माह पहले·discuss
Sure, but one could imagine that there are people working at the supermarket who would also rather do personal stuff or go cycling. But there they are, serving you.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
I think this kind of slop has negative value. It's unclear how much of the information in the comic is hallucinated, and the malformed code "for i = i1+|>" and nonsense text "(starts write hooks!" doesn't bode well.
continuational
·8 माह पहले·discuss
But on Hetzner, you can usually get a dedicated server installed and ready tomorrow.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
A few years ago I worked on TopShell, an attempt to reimagine the shell+terminal using functional programming: https://github.com/topshell-language/topshell#readme

It ticks some of the boxes, but tonnes of work would be needed to turn it into a full alternative.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
Thank you! Yeah, I think some of the newer frameworks really complicate dataflow. We're trying to keep dataflow clear, though it's a big design space given the distributed nature of webapps.

In any case, if you take it for a spin, I'd love some feedback.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
Working on a programming language for webapps!

https://www.firefly-lang.org/

Speed is not an optional feature on the web. The site above is written in Firefly, uses hydration, and scores 100% on PageSpeed Insights.

The language is largely complete, and we're now working on DX: Got a language server, a devserver, and some essential libraries.
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·8 माह पहले·discuss
Seems like we can join the club! https://www.firefly-lang.org/ is 218 kB uncompressed.
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·9 माह पहले·discuss
By requiring transparency? What's the actual problem here?
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·9 माह पहले·discuss
Basic greenhouse effect: Visible light (and ultraviolet light) comes in relatively unhindered. Gets absorbed by the earth and heats it up. The heat is emitted as infrared radiation. This gets absorbed by CO2 (and equivalents) and reemitted in a random direction. Takes a long time to reach space by chance, so the energy stays in the atmosphere for a while.