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Re:Type Server Protocol on Monday October 26, 2026 @03:10PM (#50249347)
Re:Facebook now charging to post more than 2 links a month on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:13PM (#50168593)
React is kinda shit.
Legit the only sensible person in AI.
Re:Flock is rolling out a voluntary severance program on Sunday September 20, 2026 @02:08PM (#49778326)
This is not something you can hide like that, people notice cameras being installed.
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:55AM (#49736904)
Support for custom types is not there.
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Wednesday September 16, 2026 @02:06AM (#49722645)
There is some unstability yes.

For me the larger problems were the lack of types which in practice meant that I was running into the same problems as with bash.

Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @01:50PM (#49716147)
We are on the same page then.
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:36PM (#49715079)
I was a big fan of Nushell for some time but has the same problems as unix shells. I have this CLI tool that manages a lot of things for me (a big one is downloading and cataloging arxiv papers, it downloads them and tags them with metadata and gives each PDF a proper filename based on the author's name and publication year). I tried building this in Nushell but it became eventually so painful.
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:34PM (#49715049)
Something like that yes. The endless parsing and reparsing that you need to do in the unix shells is such a pain.
Re:Swift 6.4 Released on Tuesday September 15, 2026 @12:18PM (#49714831)
Looking at things like this

```

let result = try await Subprocess.run(

  .name("ls"),

  arguments: ["-la"],

  output: .string(limit: 4096)
)

print(result.standardOutput)`

```

reminds me that macOS could really use something like powershell (I know you can run powershell on macOS) where you pass around structured data, rather than the endless parsing and reparsing. This is mostly a feature of the shell but you do need some language infrastructure to accomplish it.

Re:We just raised $400M in Series C on Wednesday August 12, 2026 @07:53PM (#49280128)
It's easy to be dismissive when it's this early.
Re:Zed DeltaDB on Thursday August 06, 2026 @02:50AM (#49193361)
Dude the writing is on the wall, git had a good run but it's time for something else. Lore is also solid.
Re:Focus on Thursday July 09, 2026 @11:53PM (#48855570)
It is not a coincidence that the author's nickname, Boz, is so close to Bozo the Clown, only a clown could write this.
Re:How to Start a Ruby Meetup on Thursday July 09, 2026 @04:56PM (#48852259)
Is Ruby really where it's at right now?
> He thinks the time has come for an in-depth debate so the technology does not signal the end of higher education

I hope it does.

Re:Mojo programming language will become open-source soon on Saturday June 27, 2026 @11:44PM (#48704133)
Ok it is the same Modular, nvm.
Re:Mojo programming language will become open-source soon on Saturday June 27, 2026 @10:37PM (#48703829)
If you are talking about the Qualcomm acquisition that was a different Modular.
Re:Sakana Fugu on Sunday June 21, 2026 @11:50PM (#48625429)
Seems kinda underwhelming considering they raised like $400M.
Re:Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst on Friday June 19, 2026 @05:47PM (#48603648)
You can export typst as latex.
Re:Gribouille 0.3.0: A Grammar of Graphics for Typst on Friday June 19, 2026 @12:28PM (#48600318)
> I haven't met anyone who knows Typst even exists.

It was released in 2023 and became polished enough to use like last year. Yeah, adoption takes time but the technology is significantly better.

> The problem is also momentum. Do you rewrite 30 years' of CTAN contributions, internal templates/styles and the toolchain off and start again or not?

With latex you have to rely on third party. With typst you can write it yourself (or with an agent), like writing functions is not painful in typst.

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