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New comment by resonancel in "DeepSeek v4"

resonancel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:28:54 +0000

Come back when Americans are routinely jailed for rubbing their elites the wrong way (in some countries, criticisms aren't the only way to rub the leaders the wrong way)

New comment by resonancel in "DeepSeek v4"

resonancel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 11:24:32 +0000

I believe China only got this huge because all its neighours couldn't help joining the peaceful middle realm \s

New comment by resonancel in "Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)"

resonancel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:18:22 +0000

IMO "level" roughly corresponds to the amount of runtime control flow hidden by abstractions. Zig is famous for having almost no hidden runtime control flow, this appears pretty "low level" to many. OTOH, Zig can have highly non-trivial hidden compile time control flow thanks to comptime reflection, but hardly anyone identifies Zig as a "high level" metaprogramming language.

New comment by resonancel in "Writing a C Compiler, in Zig (2025)"

resonancel — Fri, 24 Apr 2026 02:06:37 +0000

Then it's actually the immature zig ecosystem that rubbed the author the wrong way, not zig the language itself. Not that the ecosystem isn't important, but IMO a language only truly fails you when it doesn't offer the composability and performance characteristics necessary for your solution.

New comment by resonancel in "New study compares growing corn for energy to solar production"

resonancel — Thu, 23 Apr 2026 03:13:57 +0000

Well, Xi Jinping and his lackeys are known for their poor educational background, maybe not quite well known in the West.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YSYQpaAI90A

New comment by resonancel in "I’m spending months coding the old way"

resonancel — Sat, 18 Apr 2026 05:44:57 +0000

It's more like driving across country vs firing a missile with you being the warhead...

New comment by resonancel in "Show HN: I built a Cargo-like build tool for C/C++"

resonancel — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 05:12:12 +0000

Can't take this lib seriously when there're lots of gems like these in the codebase.

  // Open source directory
      dir_t* dir = open_dir(source_dir);

  // Find where dot is
      char* dot = strrchr(file, '.');

I thought ShowHN had banned LLM-generated contents, I can't be more wrong.

New comment by resonancel in "Union types in C# 15"

resonancel — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 08:08:34 +0000

C# is a perfect example of feature envy, but because "Java sucks" C# must be the best thing ever in the world of computing. Orthogonality and coherence be damned.

New comment by resonancel in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

resonancel — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:35:37 +0000

The Swift ecosystem is pretty amazing too. I've made several PRs and got them merged into Swift Parser while exchanging ideas with Apple employees fruitfully. The only big caveat is there's no guarantee your work will ever be merged into Xcode, meaning most Swift users won't benefit from your work because of Apple's opaque gatekeeping.

New comment by resonancel in "Xcode Is the Worst Piece of Professional Software I Have Ever Used"

resonancel — Mon, 22 Sep 2025 21:29:19 +0000

XCode evidently cannot keep pace with the rapid development of Swift. Instead of fully embracing community development, Apple maintains a proprietary (dated and divergent) fork of the Swift toolchain in Xcode. For example, check how different compiler diagnostics and suggestions are when using Xcode vs SourceKit LSP. Apple is, once again in its time-honored fashion, wasting collective effort because of its siloed, secrecy-laden development model.