guix yeah, since they picked a pre-existing one. nix the language is arguably an overgrown dsl which explaits why it’s… real weird.

i prefer referring to greenspun’s tenth

other way round surely? if you want to modify the original object, use a pointer. if you don’t, use a copy.

if you’re working with higher level languages you pass-by-reference all the time. give a list to a function to modify it? that’s by reference. giving an event handler function to a framework? that’s by reference. setting a property on an object? that’s usually by reference.

they used to call him the deref king back in college

lol no, i gave up on learning it. closest i got was prolog.

*laughs in erlang*

it’s like those ai labyrinth honeypots, but for all traffic!

i’m full-on pipelined, OoO, speculative execution, with dynamic interrupt handling. i just need a stack pointer.

opencode is a mess. it’s way overcomplicated.

personally i’m not really interested in agents, i want a tool that can automate repetitive tasks and refactoring. people seem to be building things to remove the programming altogether.

i’ve been out of work for the past nine months and looking at the software engineering news has had me feeling like i’m taking crazy pills. it’s like being in a cycling community because you love cycling, then you leave for a while and when you come back they’ve pivoted to cars.

any chance of an lsp server? i know the protocol is clunky as all hell, but local completions in any editor would be big.

yeah but isn’t that the uBo architecture ported to rust?

i think the built-in blocker is based on uBo, no?

only one of the ones i linked is from the 80s. i think you’ll find the majority are from the 50s.

gosh where have i heard that before

i did some fun metaprogramming today. i can practically hear my future self screaming.

it’s already training on itself so it’s going to get worse no matter what.

all these newfangled languages with their “memory safety” and “helpful tooling”, pah. all a real programmer needs is a hole punch and a roll of paper.

yeah that’s fair. and migrating a codebase to being typed is a nightmare. it’s worth it, but fixing all the little edge cases that you didn’t know you had, or just boxing with the type checker when it freaks out, is an extremely frustrating experience.

is django a requirement? because fastapi works amazingly with mypy.