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Seems to be about the same as it's ever been. Still being updated and worked on, and still very few people use it.
Re:Java record pattern matching in JDK 19 on Saturday May 14, 2022 @03:25PM (#31381443)
C# has been adding new major language features all the time since its inception, including pretty much everything we are seeing being added to Java these days.
Re:A whirlwind tour of object-oriented code in F# (2012) on Wednesday May 22, 2019 @12:44PM (#19982961)
My experience with F* is several unsuccessful hours of trying to compile hello world thanks to a complete lack of instructions for configuration and installation.

I hope it's gotten better.

The pricetag
I'm a new developer (an intern, actually). I just started writing a system that requires a couple secret strings. Currently I just have them as constants with my code, with the idea that I'll figure out something to do with them once I make sure everything is working.

What should I do with those secrets though? I'm not sure how to store them securely. So far I've been considering putting them in the server configuration so they can be read from environment variables, but that seems inconvenient for me and other developers and also not that much more secure.

Re:Kdenlive: an open-source video editor on Monday March 11, 2019 @10:29AM (#19359219)
Maybe software for specifically Linux is kinda KDE's whole thing. I'm just happy they go out of their way to package and test their code against other OSs in the first place.
It's fast and you can make bindings for it to any other language extremely easily.
Re:Show HN: TabNine, an autocompleter for all languages on Wednesday November 07, 2018 @01:04AM (#18397382)
I believe the Visual Studio team is working on something like this to provide better autocomplete for specifically C#.
Re:C compiler with support for structs written in Assembly on Monday August 27, 2018 @12:49PM (#17852567)
If I wanted to actually run this compiler, how would I build it?
Re:Windows Calculator invalid input with 10^x function on Thursday August 02, 2018 @05:13PM (#17675527)
I launch apl in my terminal if the calculation I need to do is simple and Wolfram|Alpha otherwise
Re:The Legend of Nintendo on Sunday June 24, 2018 @11:06PM (#17389652)
Ubisoft's Tom Clancy games are still generally Gameplay.

Rainbow Six Siege is still one of my favorites.

Re:Hello, GitHub on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:40PM (#17232802)
GitHub owns and maintains Atom, and it's biggest competitor is VS Code.
Re:Improving performance with Stackless Python on Saturday April 14, 2018 @04:31PM (#16839315)
I don't know about gevent, but stackless will work with any libraries in the same way CPython does, which makes sense given it's just a fork. Native extensions obviously won't benefit from stackless but still work with it.

Exceptions and threads don't mix well however, so using Stackless' microthreads with code that relies on exceptions will likely lead to slowdown, so there are a few things to be aware of.

Re:Improving performance with Stackless Python on Saturday April 14, 2018 @03:54PM (#16839124)
This isn't mine, it's just a neat thing I found. If you don't want to download it, you can play around with it on TIO: https://tio.run/##TY3BCgIxDETP7lfk2AorFm/CfkypKQa7aUnSw359d0...
Re:Writing a Managed JIT in C# with CoreCLR on Thursday April 12, 2018 @01:55PM (#16823276)
What dynamic languages run on the jvm? To my knowledge it doesn't support dynamic types at all.
Perl6 isn't an update to Perl5. It's a completely unrelated language with a misleading name.
Is `hexdump` not `xxd`?
Re:I have forgotten how to read on Saturday February 17, 2018 @11:35PM (#16404478)
As a young person (high school) I can assure you that this is most probably false.
Re:Chrome 68 will mark all HTTP sites as “not secure” on Friday February 09, 2018 @11:11AM (#16341315)
No it isn't, for certain certificate errors this is the only way.
I thought about this for a while before I published it. In the end, I thought it was neat and didn't see a reason not to.
Re:8 World-Class Software Companies That Use Python on Thursday February 08, 2018 @04:24PM (#16335708)
Python is incredibly popular, we know lots of companies use it. I'd be more intrested to see who uses Haskell, Lisp, ML, and other less popular languages.
Re:Poly – Browse, Discover and Download 3D Objects on Thursday November 02, 2017 @10:52AM (#15610907)
Also remix3D, by Microsoft: https://www.remix3d.com
Re:TIO: Try it online on Monday July 17, 2017 @11:58AM (#14789719)
You can ping the site's maintainer, @Dennis, in talk.tryitonline.net. Bug reports and language requests tend to be resolved withing the same day of them being submitted, because Dennis is awesome.
Re:TIO: Try it online on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:41AM (#14780519)
TIO is powered by Fedora Linux, and unfortunatly the site's maintainer was unable to get the Linux port of Swift to work. This may change in the near future, however.
Re:TIO: Try it online on Sunday July 16, 2017 @12:39AM (#14780509)
The reason it's the first time you've seen might be because it's stupidly difficult to get that effect to work on IE/Edge. You might notice that there's a different effect on the run button for those browsers.

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