Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by berkes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:15AM (#26261118)

I know you are joking.

But asides from the securities offered by the typing system and borrow checker, Rust (and Go; and maybe others to some extend) have going for them is that the compiled binary is "OOTB".

I'm on ubuntu, and it seems all python tooling is there to start running Gamestonks Terminal. But more often then not, getting a Python, Nodejs or Ruby project running requires a lot of fiddling, insider-information (what is npx, why did pipenv just break my entire desktop, why is this 'rbenv' thing giving these weird 'RVM' errors?).

A rust project: download it, unzip it, run it. A very short Daft Punk song, really.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by hinkley on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:38PM (#26266390)

Long ago I had lucid reasons why Sass was better than Less in very important ways, but over time it became "but not worth the trouble of maintaining a Ruby distribution on your machine"

The c implementation didn't hit the point of me being able to endorse it before I just gave up and let people use Less if that's what they prefer.

Runtimes, man. They can be the pits.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by infairverona on Thursday February 25, 2021 @06:44AM (#26261898)

Aren't PAR files meant to address that?

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by berkes on Thursday February 25, 2021 @09:43AM (#26263206)

Probably. As would appimg or snap or any other packaging.

But all of these don't make the packaging easier, they merely move the complexity of such setups from "all users" to "the devs". Which helps a lot.

But it's still easier if no-one has to deal with this.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by eclat on Friday February 26, 2021 @02:58AM (#26272343)

ASDF requires nearly the same amount of effort for every language

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by unixhero on Thursday February 25, 2021 @04:25AM (#26261169)

Daft Punk has split up, so it is no longer a valid meme.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by nindalf on Thursday February 25, 2021 @05:09AM (#26261447)

That’s just like, your opinion man.

See what I did? It’s an older meme, but it checks out.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by hinkley on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:40PM (#26266412)

Maybe your joke will be fine when Hell Freezes Over.

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Re:Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I buil... by hinkley on Thursday February 25, 2021 @01:40PM (#26266406)

Just wait for the 2025 reunion tour.

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