Hacker News: qwm

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:23:59 +0000

I know this is supposed to be a negative comment, but I don't think this is a bad thing

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:22:14 +0000

Some languages do it better, but it's really not a problem. It's just verbose, but people say that about Java and that never stopped it from being used everywhere

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:20:51 +0000

You can't terminate goroutines like individual threads, but there's no good reason to anyway. They designed the context system to be able to signal across goroutines and do cleanup that way

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:19:50 +0000

In the network and web backend world, we haven't moved on, and for good reason

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:18:43 +0000

Can't relate, I love Go

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:17:08 +0000

I'm a big fan of `go fix`, such a nice thing for big projects

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:15:14 +0000

Same. Go feels like the language that does everything I like about Java with a lot more control than Java gives

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:14:08 +0000

I think you're gonna like it a lot more now. The language has gained a lot of nice things since they added generics

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:13:00 +0000

This was one of the times where it made some sense. A lot of their complaints were about GC, which Discord has had issues with in the past on other things. Notably, Discord switched from Cassandra to ScyllaDB for their messages, and cited the Java GC as a big reason.

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:11:49 +0000

I think it only really happens when companies run into GC problems

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:09:56 +0000

If I'm being honest, I actually hate this feature. I like things being obvious, and structs were always something I could rely on being very explicit.

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:08:24 +0000

this is hilarious

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:06:56 +0000

Funny enough, in one of my projects I created a struct with a string field just to have a distinct type that couldn't accidentally be initialized by typing a string. This update completely messes that up lol

New comment by qwm in "Go 1.27"

qwm — Thu, 20 Aug 2026 17:05:15 +0000

I don't think it ever suggests anything specific to 3rd-party packages

New comment by qwm in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

qwm — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:04:42 +0000

I found that music video last year, and it blew my mind. So good

New comment by qwm in "Don't Take the Black Pill [video]"

qwm — Wed, 29 Jul 2026 02:00:19 +0000

Funny enough, I find myself closer to the conservative Christian upbringing I received as a child than ever before, but I totally agree with him on needing to unlearn some things when it comes to dating. Different world in the past I guess, conservative Christian or not.

Taken as a whole, the intro to his talk was pretty cohesive in my opinion, albeit controversial. It made sense when taken together, even though some people will take issue with the subject matter. The point wasn't the little details about his own experience, that was just to get you invested in the story about the degeneration of certain types of communities when people who "graduate" from them leave, and the people who never moved on remain.

New comment by qwm in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

qwm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:38:39 +0000

I guess I kind of agree with this, but Monero-related stuff is the exception for me.

New comment by qwm in "Codeberg Bans Cryptocurrency Projects"

qwm — Thu, 23 Jul 2026 18:36:45 +0000

Not the biggest fan of crypto myself, but allowing LLMs and "AI" stuff with open arms while condemning PoW crypto is hilarious. They should just say they don't like crypto at that point, because LLMs and datacenters for them are causing way more harm. Even if their qualms are fraud and abuse, I have some bad news for them about what people are using LLMs for lol

New comment by qwm in "Changing how we develop Ladybird"

qwm — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:44:36 +0000

> This isn't the death of open source. It's the death of the global village were everybody can freely roam and it's easy to interact. It's the resurrection of small, social, trusted communities. I hope this spreads to all of the internet.

This is definitely a microcosm of what's happening to the entire Internet.

New comment by qwm in "Bun support is now limited and deprecated"

qwm — Sat, 23 May 2026 06:30:57 +0000

Being conservative with technology choices and only using Node LTS has paid dividends lol