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Re:Slick Wraps Data Breach on Friday February 21, 2020 @10:00PM (#22389111)
Should probably be merged with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384754
Re:Moving to GitLab on Saturday December 01, 2018 @09:14PM (#18580345)
I don't recall GHC development ever being on GitHub? Most I can find is a mirror at https://github.com/ghc/ghc.

edit: Title has been changed.

This was very enlightening for me, thank you!
Re:The PHP Singularity (2012) on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:19AM (#18098824)
I wasn't trying to credit the language. Just curious about the state of the ecosystem.

I had the displeasure of PHP being the first "programming language" I came across. Most of my knowledge was gleaned from w3schools and various web pages scattered around the web. I recall doing a lot of Googling while trying to figure out edge cases and such.

Re:The PHP Singularity (2012) on Saturday September 29, 2018 @01:04AM (#18098790)
Make me wonder...

Is there anything like TypeScript or MoonScript for PHP? A source-to-source language that tries to mitigate the quirks and issues with the target language.

Re:An EPYC NixOS Build Farm on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:11PM (#17790733)
The tests are written in Perl and are invoked by Nix's build tools. You can skim the API at https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-nixos-tests

In this case, the test makes use of both xdotool and Nix's own testing library.