Without going into too much detail, my thesis was criticised for developing a web service with C++. I It was questioned why I didn't use #NodeJS or #Java for the web service. "It's not performance critical" said the professor.
Dude, have you used the internet lately?
EVERYTHING is performance critical!
This sort of teaching explains why most aps/websites run like absolute dogshit.
@setebos@fell@folkerschamel If your job is to call a bunch of API functions from external libraries (usually implemented in one of the system languages) that do the heavy lifting, then any language will do (COBOL anyone?). It's only familiarity (and hence velocity) that matters then. And cost of operations.
@folkerschamel@fell I agree with this. In my experience, people asume that something is slow just because it’s written in #python and usually it turns out that it’s because of developer oversight. In cases where Python is indeed a problem, I managed to solve most of my performance issues with caching, or simple code tweeks.
@Adorable_Sergal Apparently, FORTH is a language for real, well-endowed, manly men, not wimpy cucks with micropenises. Only those who can hold up a giant block of granite while kneeling on a keyboard key are worthy.
Here's some hard truth about C - It's not going away. It's not that it's perfect, but it is immensely portable and useful. More importantly, no other #programming language has come close to its ubiquity. I'm not saying other languages don't do some things better (they definitely do!), but we're going to be stuck with C for a while yet.
Not to even mention how many other more "modern" #programming languages still depend on C in some very big ways because of the operating system APIs, native database drivers, or the language itself is written in it (PHP, CPython).
@aeva@ELLIOTTCABLE Checking and… god damn it Microsoft really did something nasty to us when they decided to have the C# VM specification technically be named the "CLI"
Hey all, I want to know how you all deal with management and pushing tech debt work. Here's a little bit of background on my current situation, and I'd love to hear how you'd deal with it....
When you've spent hours writing a lot of code, and you figure out that most of it doesn't work they way you'd though together with the rest of the code base, so you revert most of it and are left with a small chunk of useful stuff ...
in the books, but I don't think it would've worked as a show.
This took on a far more personal approach to the story. It's great, and impactful, but I really don't know where things are going.
I have some gripes with the show: one is that the vault feels too powerful; the other is that I did not enjoy the Tellem arc; but assuming the rest will play out well - they are minor.
And the Demerzel finale is so strong. I absolutely love what they did with her character. Pulling so much emotion from a character that is portrayed as so cold and calculating. Fantastic work.
@nixCraft flask user-generated content handling. things like replacing the \n’s with <br>’s without breaking the safety defaults. haven’t quite figured it out yet.
@Em0nM4stodon I don't know if there is a name for it, but I imagine that for anyone who has been bitten by dependency hell in some form or another, the pendulum has swung in that direction: "I can add library XYZ, and who knows when that is going to bite me, because it's no longer maintained, has a security vulnerability in some unrelated part, etc, or I can write just what I need in 10-50 lines of code.”
@lproven@dekkzz76 I usually work with signal processing, image processing, radar, etc. I don't mean to trample the grounds outside my domain.
And I take your pointed objections about my choice of terminology. I was using those terms to describe the reinvention of old technologies in the Web stack, so I couldn't have avoided their use.
Okay Fediverse, as funding is not happening at the levels necessary to sustain me working full-time on the Fediverse (whether that's on trust & safety or on Mastodon), I'm now looking for part-time or contract positions.
Most recently I worked for Sir Tim Berners-Lee's company Inrupt.
I've been working a lot with #glsl for a while now, writing complex code. Overall, I feel like the single improvement that would make the most difference for the language would be support for pass-by-reference instead of copy in/copy out syntax, as suggested here https://github.com/KhronosGroup/GLSL/issues/84
This would make it possible to do a lot of things that are either not possible or ridiculously inefficient to compile, including object oriented programming.
Also one thing that should be easier to do (I imagine) if pass by reference exists, is to accept arbitrary length arrays as parameters.
Right now you can declare a local array and iterate on it with a for loop on its .length(), but you can't move that for loop to a common function that accepts various array sizes as input. The only way to avoid repeating the code is using macros, which sucks.
Again for a language that inlines everything this seems like a strange omission.
And it also has a no aliasing restriction; you can't have two names for the same variable memory and have a RW, WR, or WW hazard in the same function. https://www.w3.org/TR/WGSL/#alias-analysis
And with all that our compiler does call site specialization until it boils those pointer params away. It's convenient for the programmer but can bloat code size (hopefully no more than hand rolling it yourself)
For MLK day here in the US, I'm going to be doing some equity #mapping work with #OpenStreetMap#OpenTripPlanner#QGIS and mabe some #Nodejs and posting some updates throughout the day in this thread. If that's your jam, follow along.
Otherwise, you may want to mute me for 24 hours, because this may get noisy. 🧵
Why build a ped bridge if it's not going to connect anywhere useful, or safely? "Pedestrian Bridges of North Texas" captures the vibe of how our government often uses pedestrian bridges to solve transportation problems. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu5JqkufLtE
I've been #programming for 14 years now, have been using #PHP, #JavaScript, #ColdFusion, #Ruby, and whatnot, but holy cow, when reading the following chapter, I've literally been yelling "what the heck" at every second paragraph:
I mean, #PonyLang really tries to explain everything in depth, and I appreciate the effort, but while it works fine in earlier chapters, it confuses the heck out of me in this at length.
@shaedrich LOL. Who, me, the PHP team in 2004, or the Pony team? 😛
I've written on the difference between "is a" and "makes use of" before, when advocating for traits. Though I think default methods are a better answer most of the time:
@Em0nM4stodon
If you're looking for something a little different, you might enjoy this. It's not a mix (because most of his songs have some lyrics, although they're mostly in Yoruba), but it is a fun listen! https://youtu.be/k6FVC1iS-oI?si=lhxYGMQO1aqNhiuu
@Em0nM4stodon Right now, I'm listening to a 1hr version of of a tune - but it's not making me want to attack a American special-ops squad, in a small village in Qatar 😆
@parcifal It depends on the context. When it comes to my personal projects, my commits don't affect anyone else. If a feature I'm planning to implement consists of three tangible units of work, I'll commit as soon as each unit is implemented, unless, of course, they're small enough to be done together in one day. At work, I believe it doesn't matter too. People develop new features in separate branches, and commits should be squashed before creating a pull request.
What's your #editor / #IDE of choice, and why is it so? Do you use that for all tasks and #programming languages, or do you switch between editors depending on what you're working on?
I mostly use #IntelliJ / #Goland for large projects, and #VSCode for simpler ones. But tbh, I find myself increasingly using VS Code even for projects where I'd previously would reach for IntelliJ. And their poor story around language server integrations makes them feel less relevant today than they used to be.
@anderseknert No. Visual Studio, for instance, is Windows only, although I guess that is really more #IDE than just editor.
I would call VS Code an IDE as well, but there are those that claim it doesn't have all the functionality of one.
And XCode is macOS only.
I was looking at video reviews of git GUI clients. The best ones are pricey and we are two people occasionally editing some webpages for our business website. It’s hosted on GitLab Pages....
I'm experimenting with a new Preferences dialog for my app. These are never easy to make and are usually hard to navigate due to the volume of labels and buttons.
I'm testing out putting all the setting on a long page with navigation buttons. This replaces the traditional tabbed layout the app currently uses.
It is still an information overload. Maybe I can also make the content searchable?
@veronica that looks great! I think the only way to improve that is to use similar strings as well, but it’s hard to predict what users will search for! Time for some testing 😅
@matt Yeah, problem with more fuzzy logic is that these strings are translated into multiple languages by contributiors. Also, there are only 49 settings.
What do you say to whitespace-sensitive/oriented programming languages, assuming your IDE supports the whitespace-behaviour really well, and all the tooling around it is generally good?
@gregorni yes. I mean if the language is a good language, i will use it. But if it is not good, or i don't like it (i. e. Javascript/typescript) i will hate them no matter the syntax lol
found another gotcha, you could use require to load json any time, import can only be used to load json in the root scope (not in functions for example)
