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And starting fires or making coats used to be forms of art, now we just buy a Zippo and a London Fog and call it an afternoon. Jobs evolve to specialize. I call that progress.

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Also it looks like[1] Luau is the official Roblox Studio scripting language, and is baed on Lua 5.1 (possibly LuaJIT?) which means it's behind mainstream Lua.

Not sure which Lua versions the others are based on.

[1] https://create.roblox.com/docs/luau

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Many of us would love a TypeScript analogy for Lua.

There have been some attempts:

Luau (5.2k, last week, https://luau.org/, https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang)

Nelua (2.3k, 8 months ago, https://nelua.io/, https://github.com/luau-lang/luau)

Terra (2.9k, 3 days ago, https://terralang.org/, https://github.com/terralang/terra)

Teal (2.7k, 2 days ago, https://teal-language.org/, https://github.com/teal-language/tl)

The Luau author is always on the official Lua mailing list, and it has twice as many stars, so it seems likely to win the long term popularity contest.

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It uses refcounting, and GC for cycles. Sounds good. Why don't more Lua-likes?

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The article says it's repurposed.

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Human history is full of cases where silly mistakes became precedent. HTTP "referal" is just another example.

I wonder if there's a wikipedia article listing these...

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They're definitely going to do it at some point in the near future, mark my words.

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These are fine times. Just need a little extra cash for cigars, that's all. Had two yesterday, made the money by selling Premium Snowballs in Chicago for $2 each (made $50 that day). Life is fun.

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Looking for remote side quests.

. . . . Ideally 5-20 hour projects with fixed prices.

. . . . . . . . Ideal range is ~ $50-500 USD

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. . . . . . . . Most of my resume is classified. Quiz me.

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That list (or any similar list) would be so helpful if it had a health column, something that takes into account number of contributors, time since last commit, number of forks, number of commits, etc. So many projects are effectively dead but it's not obvious at first sight, and it takes 2 or 3 whole minutes to figure out. That seems short but it adds up when evaluating a project, causing people to just go to a well known solution like Lua (and why not? Lua is just fine; in fact it's great).

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The for loop is odd. Why is the word counter in there twice?

    counter :: int

    for counter in <1, 10-counter> (
       print(counter)
       print(" ")
    )

Using backfor to count backwards is an odd choice. Why not overload for?

    backfor counter in <1, 9> print(counter, " ")

This is confusing to me. Maybe I'm misunderstanding the design principles, but the syntax seems unintuitive.

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A new one seems to pop up every year, and some every 13 or 17 years.

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I don't know why they do that, but it's really the main (only?) drawback to KDP.

My guess is that they do expand, but only when genuinely needed for long-term. They probably keep a certain amount of blank books in stock, and ration them out to PoD books somewhat evenly, with established books getting higher priority.

This was the video that singlehandedly got me all those sales I mentioned earlier: https://www.tiktok.com/@alwayscandid/video/73180668430448755... ... honestly it's quite poetic how it all turned out. I did almost no work making a book, I made way more money than I ever deserved, I wasted all of it, and now I'm sleeping in my car. It's very fair, it's more than fair. It's generous.

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How likely is a future where Microsoft

(a) gives us back 2000/XP/7/11 options for UI,

(b) gives us a desktop-first experience when we have keyboard/mouse plugged in,

(c) stops turning every OS feature into an ad, and makes it utilitarian again,

(d) and focuses 100% on making a stable OS and high quality dev/office apps?

It would be so nice if they just forked a commit from ~2005 and started from there.

(Maybe Copilot will mess up & erase commits so they have to? One can only dream.)

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