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New comment by lenkite in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

lenkite — Sun, 24 May 2026 10:51:28 +0000

Zig makes allocation an explicit runtime concern:

   var list = std.ArrayList(i32).init(allocator);

where allocator is a runtime value implementing the allocator interface.

   fn parseJson(allocator: Allocator, input: []const u8) !JsonValue

Zig forces the caller to decide since allocator is part of the function contract. And this is consistent everywhere in Zig. Effectively speaking, this is universal, explicit & mandated dependency injection for memory management as opposed to to classic C++ STL allocators.

Sorry sir, I have a nostalgic fondness for C++ - it was my first language, but it just doesn't compare for flexible allocation convenience compared to Zig.

New comment by lenkite in "API proposed by Chrome: Declarative partial updates"

lenkite — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:59:09 +0000

> How is this better than existing solutions?

For one - will not need to write JS or bundle a JS library to do this if it has native platform support.

New comment by lenkite in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

lenkite — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:46:43 +0000

We are not taking about legacy heavy weight OS/platform threads. But "green" threads managed by the language runtime like Go. Java went the Go/Erlang way.

https://javapro.io/2026/03/05/java-25-and-the-new-age-of-per...

https://docs.oracle.com/en/java/javase/26/core/virtual-threa...

New comment by lenkite in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

lenkite — Sun, 24 May 2026 09:01:38 +0000

Pluggable allocators. Allocators are passed to functions as arguments, the caller decides exactly how memory is managed. Maybe not "new" in idea, but "new" in being consistently applied everywhere in language & libraries.

New comment by lenkite in ".NET (OK, C#) finally gets union types"

lenkite — Sun, 24 May 2026 08:58:19 +0000

Java Virtual Threads are a superior paradigm to C#'s async/await and function coloring.

New comment by lenkite in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

lenkite — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:16:09 +0000

Can you apply your philosophy to the U.S. dollar ? I am sure producing copies is a "theft" that is entirely in your head. You were deprived of nothing by someone else making a copy of your dollar.

New comment by lenkite in "Is AI Profitable Yet?"

lenkite — Sat, 23 May 2026 11:09:25 +0000

Hah, none of the big companies are going to write off their entire investment. They will come begging for bailouts.

Privatize Profits and Socialize Losses is now Bog-Standard Operating Procedure.

New comment by lenkite in "Deno 2.8"

lenkite — Sat, 23 May 2026 09:57:27 +0000

Are there languages and runtimes which have done stuff at this low-level before ? Sandboxing at the individual function level ?

New comment by lenkite in "No more JetBrains products for me"

lenkite — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:31:34 +0000

Its "yyP" :-)

New comment by lenkite in "No more JetBrains products for me"

lenkite — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:26:59 +0000

I think you need to try the Jetbrains debugger first - anyone who has used it would never compare it with neovim or emacs.

New comment by lenkite in "Saying goodbye to asm.js"

lenkite — Wed, 20 May 2026 19:05:30 +0000

Kindly give us performant access to the DOM, pretty-please! WITHOUT any JS glue code.

WASM is called WEB assembly but it can't access the Web API's without paying tax to the JS tyrant in between.

New comment by lenkite in "2ality blog: temporarily offline due to AI stealing work"

lenkite — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:40:07 +0000

It pretty clear that the days of open-publishing are over. Your work merely goes into feeding Anthropic & OpenAI's bottomline.

Priced & closed digital publication with a notice of "This reading license is for pure human consumption only - kindly contact the publisher for AI usage", is going to become more and more popular.

New comment by lenkite in "Native all the way, until you need text"

lenkite — Sun, 17 May 2026 13:03:01 +0000

> But I still cannot make a simple thing work properly: a chat with Markdown & the ability to select a whole message.

Sorry, sounds like bullsh_t. One can leverage mature markdown renderers in SwiftUI. See https://github.com/gonzalezreal/swift-markdown-ui and its next gen replacement https://github.com/gonzalezreal/textual .

Used these myself and had no issues. And I am a moron who doesn't like Swift or SwiftUI - preferred Objective-C, but still managed to do this, without any LLM help.

New comment by lenkite in "C++26 Shipped a SIMD Library Nobody Asked For"

lenkite — Sun, 17 May 2026 08:22:36 +0000

Overly wordy and repetitive - taking 3x the amount of words if a human had written it.

New comment by lenkite in "The limits of Rust, or why you should probably not follow Amazon and Cloudflare"

lenkite — Thu, 14 May 2026 17:52:14 +0000

> 3. You don't need to use async Rust.

This is like saying you don't need to use a Smartphone. Technically, correct, but then you need to live like a caveman.

New comment by lenkite in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

lenkite — Sun, 10 May 2026 22:17:26 +0000

Gojure is simplest. Just a bit close to Glojure which is already taken.

Goclo, Gophoj,Gorjure ..ok my tongue is paining now verbally trying out combos.

New comment by lenkite in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

lenkite — Sun, 10 May 2026 08:02:56 +0000

I wish this had a better language name than just "lets-go". How about "clogo" ?

New comment by lenkite in "Windows quality update: Progress we've made since March"

lenkite — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:19:33 +0000

This behaviour really trumped me when I was working on a friends Windows-11 PC on the new year. My Family Big-Home PC (> a decade old) still has Win-10 since it cannot upgrade, so I was confused at WTF was happening. I could not believe Microsoft had actually broken this.

New comment by lenkite in "I rebuilt my blog's cache. Bots are the audience now"

lenkite — Sun, 03 May 2026 18:02:12 +0000

The world-wide web has been unfortunately been conquered, annexed and is being burned by the Tyrannical AI Empire. Until a Pure-Humans-Only alternative resistance movement and platform arises from its sordid ashes, we will all need to bow our heads and kneel before the God-Emperor.

New comment by lenkite in "Windows API is Successful Cross-Platform API (2024)"

lenkite — Sun, 03 May 2026 06:38:12 +0000

> It's Linux's failure that one of the world's biggest corporations outspent it on marketing by orders of magnitude?

No, It is Linux's severe failure that it lacked a singular, stable, and unified userspace GUI API.