<rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>Hacker News: NeutralForest</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=NeutralForest</link><description>Hacker News RSS</description><docs>https://hnrss.org/</docs><generator>hnrss v2.1.1</generator><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Jun 2026 14:17:46 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hnrss.org/user?id=NeutralForest" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"></atom:link><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Python 3.14 garbage collection rigamarole"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> My experience with Python is a really bad one for professional work: it's chaotic and slow, and has by far the worst versioning and packaging story of any mainstream language, yet its proponents keep praising it in denial.<p>Some people just don't have the experience you do, "its proponent keep praising it in denial", can we have a better level of debate, come on now.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Sun, 14 Jun 2026 10:08:59 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525791</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525791</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48525791</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "The state of building user interfaces in Rust"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>I think this article: <a href="https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-gui-libraries.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.boringcactus.com/2025/04/13/2025-survey-of-rust-...</a> was the most exhaustive review of accessibility that I know of.</p>
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<p>It's exciting to see those developments in what is a language with already great economics. I'm sad there's pretty much no market for it in western Europe aside from maybe Germany.</p>
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<p>Software design/architecture is a strange beast. It feels that if you want to learn it, you should spend time in legacy systems and large codebases of rewrite a project 3 times to explore counterfactuals. A lot of books on the subjects are abstract and give such simple examples, they are useless.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I'll leave it as sucky markdown :D</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 14:54:04 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963481</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963481</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47963481</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>That's fair, I have plenty of international coworkers and I think (and from what I hear from them), that Belgium is decently welcoming, at least in large cities.<p>I do take the train quite often as I said, anything on large axes is usually fine (Brussels - Charleroi, Brussels - Antwerp, etc) but yeah smaller lines are usually struggling some more.<p>I wish we had more ambitious governments in general, not only in terms of energy but also in the (bio)tech scene, which used to be touted as our great strength (we do have a lot of pharma companies though).</p>
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<p>I'm not disagreeing</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:45:33 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962393</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962393</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962393</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>> Having kids is a financial and ecological disaster. As an outside observer it's remarkable to me people are still having any kids at all, which speaks to the strong subjective factors overpowering whatever objective considerations one might have about it.<p>Absolutely insane take imo. You do you man.</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2026 13:30:47 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962151</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962151</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47962151</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Belgium stops decommissioning nuclear power plants"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Depending on the country's situation, you might have to use fossil fuels during the transition, that's alright. But the transition is non-negotiable at this point.</p>
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<p>I just want Belgium to go all-in on renewables, we [already have a pretty good electricity production make-up](<a href="https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/energy/electricity-production#panel-12" rel="nofollow">https://statbel.fgov.be/en/themes/energy/electricity-product...</a>) but we're still [too dependent on oil](<a href="https://www.iea.org/countries/belgium/energy-mix" rel="nofollow">https://www.iea.org/countries/belgium/energy-mix</a>).<p>Hopefully the current energy crisis is a wake up call.</p>
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<p>It's fine to shit on things but I have service almost everywhere and I take the train often with usually few issues aside from works on the tracks. Let's not blow up issues, it takes away from what we should focus on.</p>
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<p>Fair enough!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:55:46 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592602</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592602</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47592602</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Why did you move from it if I may ask?</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 17:16:10 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590532</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590532</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47590532</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Always a solution ofc!</p>
]]></description><pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2026 15:56:08 +0000</pubDate><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589295</link><dc:creator>NeutralForest</dc:creator><comments>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589295</comments><guid isPermaLink="false">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47589295</guid></item><item><title><![CDATA[New comment by NeutralForest in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"]]></title><description><![CDATA[
<p>Hey! Thanks for creating the package =) I'll need to try the integration again.</p>
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<p>I would love to use Clojure but there are basically no jobs in my area with the language. Seems like the Nordics like Clojure but I'd need to move.<p>The very good backwards compatibility is attractive but as the result of the small community, there's also a lot of abandoned packages and fewer QoL packages (formatters, linters, etc); I know there are some but for example I had setup `cljfmt` in Emacs and it wouldn't work, didn't look further.</p>
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<p>Thanks, I had to do the same.</p>
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<p>I know but still it was a bit too high level for my taste though I appreciate the effort!</p>
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<p>I thought it was generally interesting but it needs to materialize into processes and tools people can use.</p>
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<p>Yeah I was looking for the next one!</p>
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