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New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Eight Books to Read If You're Still Thinking About the Roman Empire"

nesarkvechnep — Thu, 13 Aug 2026 11:45:50 +0000

I guess it's a play on Roman numerals? VIII is 5 because V as a hand gesture stands for 2? Or I just can't count properly.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "What's the best programming language for coding agents?"

nesarkvechnep — Tue, 11 Aug 2026 21:57:57 +0000

You are not 100% correct. Modules in Elixir are like namespaces, they contain functions. They're "static" and don't communicate with anything. Processes communicate with each other via messages.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "“Code was never the hard part” is an insult to all programmers"

nesarkvechnep — Sun, 09 Aug 2026 04:53:57 +0000

I currently work on a glorified admin panel. The code should be the easy part. Unfortunately, the codebase is absolute trash. The code and the requirements are hard. My colleagues which drove the codebase to this miserable state think they’re developer extraordinaires. They don’t see the problems, at all. I can’t change anything and if I ask to be put on a different project I might be fired.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "What I love about Django"

nesarkvechnep — Thu, 06 Aug 2026 11:07:49 +0000

Elixir and Phoenix.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Rio-vt and librio: Rio's terminal engine, now embeddable"

nesarkvechnep — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:35:58 +0000

What would be the advantage of Rio? Curious, not trying to start an argument.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Stateless MCP has recaptured my interest"

nesarkvechnep — Wed, 05 Aug 2026 09:34:44 +0000

Oh, man. Again, people call MCP endpoints REST-ful when the format is JSON-RPC. That's why we can't have nice things.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "An Honest Review of AI Programming"

nesarkvechnep — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:27:45 +0000

So you basically agree but complain there are no new arguments against AI programming in the article?

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (August 2026)"

nesarkvechnep — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 12:24:00 +0000

Location: Varna, Bulgaria Remote: yes Willing to relocate: no Technologies: Elixir, Erlang, JavaScript, Python, SQL Résumé/CV: https://drive.proton.me/urls/7KWKMN96ZM#mj96pifbhyPI Email: krasen.penchev@protonmail.com

I’m a software developer, a generalist, with more than 10 years of experience in delivering robust code in industries like online games, healthcare, education, finance, and staff management. Being a team player, I don’t hesitate to give and receive feedback in order for my team to grow. I’m eager to learn, improve, and use best-in-class technologies to build scalable, fault-tolerant, and predictable software. In the last 5 years I’ve been using Elixir to build everything from system daemons to UI heavy applications.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Bonsai: Janestreet's UI Library"

nesarkvechnep — Tue, 04 Aug 2026 05:41:33 +0000

Yeah… I’ve been a professional Elixir developer for 5+ years and additional 4 as a hobby. The quality of the ecosystem and the practices are nowhere near those in OCaml. Sad to say it. People just want to write imperative procedural code and monkey patch in tests so they can test anything at all.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

nesarkvechnep — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 11:48:23 +0000

In my case, Elixir is the best language, plus the BEAM, for everything that consumes from the network or listens on a socket. It's just too easy.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Steel Bank Common Lisp version 2.6.7"

nesarkvechnep — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 04:36:58 +0000

But then again, why would I use CL for this when I can use Elixir? I’m not the original commenter but I too can’t find a use case for CL.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Third Drone Shot Down in Three Days in Romanian Territory"

nesarkvechnep — Sun, 26 Jul 2026 13:45:34 +0000

I hope they don’t send any to Bulgaria. Our PM is waiting exactly this to declare we’re joining the Russian federation.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "JEP 540: Simple JSON API (Now in Incubator)"

nesarkvechnep — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 04:52:51 +0000

For the systems you mentioned I’d choose Erlang or Elixir over Java or Closure. The right runtime for the right problems.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "After 7 years in production, Scarf has reluctantly moved away from Haskell"

nesarkvechnep — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 13:41:33 +0000

The whole article feels like a rationalisation for vibe coding your product from now on.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Good Tools Are Invisible"

nesarkvechnep — Sat, 11 Jul 2026 04:08:34 +0000

This is my mentality but when it comes to my company. I want to have clients for which I consistently produce solid work, no flash, no news headlines. Doing the work and quietly building a reputation.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Interview with Mitchell Hashimoto about Ghostty and Zig"

nesarkvechnep — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 09:41:28 +0000

Unfortunately, it made me even more sad because the project I'm working on now is complete trash. Every line outdoes the previous in the dumbest thing possible. Four years at the company and not a single greenfield project for me, only well established piles of... you get the idea.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Train sim created by just one person is being called the best ever made"

nesarkvechnep — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 20:49:50 +0000

After school I played countless hours of Euro Truck Simulator. It was an awesome escapism. Being a truck driver, driving through sun and snow, in different parts of Europe. Crazy drivers at night, needed to think quick in difficult situations.

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

nesarkvechnep — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 14:16:47 +0000

Did Linus Torvalds convince you, with his history of outbursts, that Linux is done?

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "My thoughts on the Bun Rust rewrite"

nesarkvechnep — Thu, 09 Jul 2026 12:28:17 +0000

In what way the article convinced you that Andrew Kelley is not professional enough for a serious project like Zig? Isn't his contribution to the language what's important?

New comment by nesarkvechnep in "Poly/ML – A Standard ML Implementation"

nesarkvechnep — Tue, 07 Jul 2026 05:43:32 +0000

See SGML for a markup language.