Hacker News: balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=balencppHacker News RSShttps://hnrss.org/hnrss v2.1.1Wed, 09 Sep 2026 08:21:49 +0000<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"]]>Doesn't apply as much to Clojurescript due to it being dynamically typed and its flexibility. Sure, you often write a wrapper, but it's more of an abstraction and a good practice, not a necessity in cljs.

]]>Tue, 04 Aug 2026 01:11:52 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163311balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163311https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49163311<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Unexpected productivity boost of Rust"]]>R.E. scaffolding in C#, with upcoming .NET 10, it's really simple: - Write code to myfile.cs - `dotnet run myfile.cs`

That doesn't need scaffolding either. And the standard library is huge too; you could even add dependencies in that file.

And since we're talking about RAD, Python can't even compare to Clojure. Having a separate REPL "server" that you interact with from your text editor with access to the JVM's ecosystem and standard library inside of a "living" environment and structural navigation from being a LISP is pure RAD. Heck, I often start a REPL "server" inside chrome's devtools with scittle[1] if I need to rapidly and programmatically interact with a website and/or to script something; I haven't been able to do that anywhere else. Even pure JS.

[1]: https://github.com/babashka/scittle

]]>Fri, 29 Aug 2025 22:41:06 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070222balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070222https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45070222<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "The Fall of Roam (2022)"]]>What are you implying by that?

]]>Mon, 19 May 2025 12:03:25 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028901balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028901https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44028901<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "We fell out of love with Next.js and back in love with Ruby on Rails"]]>So you make incrementing a counter a full page reload?

]]>Sun, 04 May 2025 07:52:44 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885248balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885248https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43885248<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in ".NET 9 Is Out"]]>They’re not mutually exclusive. Most of the large performance improvements are from .NET, the runtime and compilers. They’re not related to C#.

]]>Thu, 14 Nov 2024 13:16:55 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135886balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135886https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135886<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in ".NET 9"]]>.NET has come to be a very solid, performant, cross-platform, productive runtime. I always come back to it for most projects. Thanks to everyone involved!

]]>Wed, 13 Nov 2024 07:58:36 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123819balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123819https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42123819<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Ask HN: Do you still use Java?"]]>There is no lock-in to Microsoft in C#. It hasn't been like that for years, and it's only getting better. IDE wise, there is Rider, which is free now, and one of the best IDE experiences you will have in any language (I personally prefer using VSCode which also has great support nowadays despite its rough history).

]]>Tue, 12 Nov 2024 19:03:23 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118517balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118517https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42118517<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Rust for tokenising and parsing"]]>Did you discover Scala 3 and give it a thought? I think of it as Rust with an _overall_ stronger type-system, but where you don't have to worry about memory management. It has an amazing standard library, particularly around collections. You get access to the amazing JVM ecosystem. And more. Martin Odersky in fact sees Scala's future lying in being a simpler Rust.

Also, regarding F#. It runs on .NET, and indeed, since the ecosystem and community are very small, you need to rely on .NET (basically C#) libraries. But it's really not "tied" to Microsoft and is open source.

]]>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:19:04 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089670balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089670https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089670<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Rust for tokenising and parsing"]]>I am genuinely curious too. .NET is a very mature, very performant runtime, and I think of F#, a beautiful, productive language, running on it a big pro. Perhaps things used to be different about/regarding Microsoft?

]]>Fri, 08 Nov 2024 19:07:00 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089583balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089583https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42089583<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "I just tested ChatGPT Search vs. Google – here's the results"]]>Their flagship models are available for free for everyone: aistudio.google.com. You have the option to enable "search grounding" to get the same thing as ChatGPT Search.

]]>Sat, 02 Nov 2024 11:50:24 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42025800balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42025800https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42025800<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Ask HN: What do you use Clojure for?"]]>Offtopic: As an Iraqi Kurd, it's quite amazing (and surprising!) to find another Clojurian in Iraq. Also, the website looks and runs great!

]]>Tue, 15 Oct 2024 22:10:56 +0000https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853628balencpphttps://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853628https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41853628<![CDATA[New comment by balencpp in "Ask HN: Why are people paying so much for Vercel?"]]>When was the last time you tried C#? These days, it's as simple as getting dotnet and executing "dotnet new