Hacker News: mark38848

New comment by mark38848 in "A critique of package managers"

mark38848 — Thu, 11 Sep 2025 06:38:06 +0000

Where's the discussion about package sets? Always comparing yourself to Javascript, Java, and friends is obviously easy

New comment by mark38848 in "Stop writing CLI validation. Parse it right the first time"

mark38848 — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 07:34:57 +0000

Just use optparse-applicative in PureScript. Applicatives are great for this and the library gives it to you for free.

New comment by mark38848 in "What's the point of vibe coding if I still have to pay a dev to fix it?"

mark38848 — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 05:04:42 +0000

Yes, it's written by some disgruntled dev or somebody trying to be funny

New comment by mark38848 in "Zig Error Patterns"

mark38848 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:10:09 +0000

It's still complete dogshit not to be able to have data there. Odin is much better here, iirc

New comment by mark38848 in "Zig Error Patterns"

mark38848 — Thu, 07 Aug 2025 05:08:44 +0000

Yes also the function syntax is weird and ugly because functions aren't expressions.

New comment by mark38848 in "Why is the Rust compiler so slow?"

mark38848 — Fri, 27 Jun 2025 05:43:25 +0000

What are obnoxious types? Types either represent the data correctly or not. I think you can force types to shut up the compiler in any language including Haskell, Idris, PureScript...

New comment by mark38848 in "Why are front end dev demand so high if front end development is easier? (2012)"

mark38848 — Sat, 07 Jun 2025 05:18:44 +0000

Yeah. I am a backend dev these days because it pays more. Backend people have this obnoxious attitude of looking down on frontend without having any idea what it entails. Also demonising V8 and glorifying the JVM for some reason. In my experience frontend challenges around animation for example require a lot more reasoning than most backend tasks.

New comment by mark38848 in "(On | No) Syntactic Support for Error Handling"

mark38848 — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:50:14 +0000

Why not change everything along with it? It can only get better

New comment by mark38848 in "Spaced repetition systems have gotten better"

mark38848 — Sun, 18 May 2025 12:49:22 +0000

Why does everybody want to learn Japanese? What makes Japanese so enticing? Why not Mandarin or at lead Spanish?

New comment by mark38848 in "The Awful German Language (1880)"

mark38848 — Fri, 16 May 2025 04:35:17 +0000

I suppose like the general American of today, he has just never really learnt an n-th language (where n>1).

New comment by mark38848 in "Mill as a direct style build tool"

mark38848 — Wed, 14 May 2025 05:13:14 +0000

Does it support source dependencies over stupid jar files?

New comment by mark38848 in "Mako – fast, production-grade web bundler based on Rust"

mark38848 — Tue, 02 Jul 2024 17:28:51 +0000

Why not use a fast language like C, Odin, Hare or Zig?

New comment by mark38848 in "Understanding React Compiler"

mark38848 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:46:27 +0000

Observables aren't magic. They're just shit.

New comment by mark38848 in "Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code"

mark38848 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:36:12 +0000

It has no "selling" points. If it had any pecuniary cost nobody would use it.

New comment by mark38848 in "Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code"

mark38848 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:34:39 +0000

I mean you still use Java, so you seem to really like sticking to your tools!

New comment by mark38848 in "Open source 'Eclipse Theia IDE' exits beta to challenge Visual Studio Code"

mark38848 — Sat, 29 Jun 2024 06:30:54 +0000

I use astronvim and still don't know how to get Purescript to work.

New comment by mark38848 in "Elixir Anti-Patterns"

mark38848 — Fri, 28 Jun 2024 18:08:21 +0000

Why wouldn't you feel bad for the person having to write Go after you? Makes no sense to me

New comment by mark38848 in "Farm: Fast vite compatible build tool written in Rust"

mark38848 — Sat, 22 Jun 2024 06:29:12 +0000

Bun would be cool if it worked. At least it's not written in Rust so there's that.

New comment by mark38848 in "Addition with flamethrowers – why game devs don't unit test"

mark38848 — Sat, 25 May 2024 05:15:46 +0000

I think Minecraft was originally written in Java and rewritten in a good programming language (i.e. not Java).

New comment by mark38848 in "Ballerina: Functional programming framework for front end web development"

mark38848 — Fri, 24 May 2024 06:18:31 +0000

PureScript is arguably the prettiest functional programming language and it compiles to JS (or Erlang, or C++, or Go, or Chez Scheme, or Kotlin, or C)