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New comment by alex_x in "Programming Still Sucks"

alex_x — Fri, 08 May 2026 06:14:35 +0000

been thinking about the same for a while but couldn't put this into words; thank you

Show HN: Review code changes in a terminal and share with your coding agent

alex_x — Thu, 07 May 2026 11:23:54 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexfedosov/diffnotes

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48048067

Points: 2

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New comment by alex_x in "StarFighter 16-Inch"

alex_x — Wed, 06 May 2026 06:30:54 +0000

what's your average battery life?

New comment by alex_x in "GitHub rushed to fix a critical vulnerability in less than six hours"

alex_x — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 12:20:42 +0000

isn't that a normal timeline for critical vulnerability? Seems like paid marketing

Incomplete pull request results in repositories

alex_x — Wed, 29 Apr 2026 11:52:07 +0000

Article URL: https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/x69zbgdyfzg0

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47947049

Points: 4

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New comment by alex_x in "Raylib v6.0"

alex_x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:11:02 +0000

No bindings, I wrote a few wrappers myself to make often used functions a bit more swifty, but otherwise its pretty smooth sailing

New comment by alex_x in "Raylib v6.0"

alex_x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 17:06:04 +0000

a lot of cool-looking stuff in my ECS is supported by Swift parameter packs; however, once you start using them a lot you find limits pretty soon.

One example: the following wouldn't compile in swift:

  func query(
    _ body: ((repeat each T), (repeat each K)) -> Void
  ) { ... }

so you kinda work around it with extra type wrappers but this looks ugly - I've been using macros to hide some of the ugliness away xD

edit: the example is oversimplified just to show the point - in this example compiler can't really tell where T ends and K starts, so its logical; but I had more complex cases where a human would've been able to infer types correctly

New comment by alex_x in "Raylib v6.0"

alex_x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 15:35:26 +0000

there is not much to brag about yet :'(

About a year ago I was curious about building an ECS-based game engine with world simulations like in dwarf fortress, but obviously at much smaller scale while playing Starfield. Something cool started to materialise after tinkering so I thought why not turn it into a space-sim roguelike with a simulated living world.

I use swift because it gives me fantastic devex with all its great type inference and macros + raylib gives me cross platform input handling / rendering and window management.

C-interop setup is basically instant - you point compiler to c headers and the API becomes immediately visible on swift side

As for swift ergonomics, I particularly love that I can now write very readable code, like:

> world.addRelation(attacker, Attacks.self, target) > world.addRelation(player, Owns.self, sword)

> for (entity, position) in world.query(Position.self).with(Health.self, Velocity.self).without(Enemy.self) {}

New comment by alex_x in "Raylib v6.0"

alex_x — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 14:49:59 +0000

I'm currently building my roguelike in swift using c-interop with raylib - this brings me so much joy

New comment by alex_x in "AI is going to kill app subscriptions"

alex_x — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 11:16:13 +0000

One of the reasons I built pocket.codes https://www.linkedin.com/posts/afedosov_when-i-started-my-ca...

Apple is being Apple and not letting me to release it however :(

New comment by alex_x in "Install.md: A standard for LLM-executable installation"

alex_x — Fri, 16 Jan 2026 22:50:27 +0000

I don’t understand how this made it to the front page

Show HN: VS-1: an audio sample tournament sorter

alex_x — Thu, 01 Jan 2026 21:54:07 +0000

Article URL: https://github.com/alexfedosov/vs-1

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46458478

Points: 3

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New comment by alex_x in "Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice"

alex_x — Sat, 20 Sep 2025 17:20:47 +0000

Thanks! Postgres is the easiest choice ever haha

New comment by alex_x in "Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice"

alex_x — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:57:59 +0000

> Let go all the new possibilities, and use the same stack you used for the preceding project.

I think this is very good perspective, thank you for the advice

New comment by alex_x in "Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice"

alex_x — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 17:03:59 +0000

Interesting point

New comment by alex_x in "Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice"

alex_x — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 11:19:19 +0000

> The situation you describe isn't easy to get out of until you address whatever fear is causing you to over-worry about every step.

Thanks for the reply, I think this is exactly what I needed to hear; will try to reflect on this.

From the very top of my head: I know exactly what I need to do but I feel like with every tech choice I need to either learn "how" or refresh my previous knowledge.

Wearing multiple hats in rapidly popping up and fading out tech startups didn't really help to go deep with one thing (as I managed to with objc/ios)

Ask HN: Feel stuck and overwhelmed by tech choice

alex_x — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 10:53:06 +0000

Across last 18 years I've been working on many different products with different tech stacks; my journey looked like html+js -> php -> obj-c -> swift -> kotlin -> go -> js -> typescript + all possible infra (from dokku to multi cloud with terraform)

I have a lot of ideas I want to build/prototype quickly, but every time starting a project I feel stuck and paralyzed with many choices, end up reading internet and HN for 3 days on all possible tech choices and find myself tired even before starting project.

I know I should just pick one and stick to it, but its very hard. I spent most of my dev time working exclusively as iOS dev with obj-c and I know the stack inside out. I was productive and very quick. With the rest I feel like everything is at the same level of unknowns and I have zero opinions.

Do you happen to experience the same and how do you fight it?

(edits: fixed a few typos)

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45300169

Points: 11

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