Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47544974

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Searching for alternatives, Textadept seemed to fill the gap between features, speed and simplicity.

The plugin mentioned by the parent is really easy to grasp and tailor to my needs, which would not be the case with Notepad++, well, not for me at least.

The only thing missing is for me is the "save temporary file" behavior, as I have this habit of making a quick note, close to save up space, both in RAM and view, then later on, fire it up again. Will see if there's a Lua api for this later.

Nevertheless, I don't like the new name either, oh well...

I like this comment though:

Imagine you make a free software project and it runs into trademark issues because people have more money than you to register in more classes than your project.

And then even though your project existed first, they still come after you anyway.

And from that an even more expensive rebranding from this as well.

from: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45626225, not sure how accurate it is, but it makes me want to revolt .

Really interesting results, not sure how well it is written but works. I was quite found of Rust syntax; it certainly is not as convoluted as C++ (in my opinion).

Then I read this article. Since I was already eye-balling Swift for some time, I decided to give it a try and port to it, using Rust implementation as reference, and this time, without much of A. I. assistance, if I could help it.

I'm using an qcow2 Debian trixie arm image in UTM as playground. I found out that there is no packaging for Debian at the time of this writing: https://github.com/swiftlang/swift/issues/60690. No problem! They have a script for installing: https://www.swift.org/install/linux/

    curl -O https://download.swift.org/swiftly/linux/swiftly-$(uname -m).tar.gz && \
    tar zxf swiftly-$(uname -m).tar.gz && \
    ./swiftly init --quiet-shell-followup && \
    . "${SWIFTLY_HOME_DIR:-$HOME/.local/share/swiftly}/env.sh" && \
    hash -r

    Unsupported Linux platform
    Debian GNU/Linux 13 (trixie) is not an officially supported platform, but the toolchains for another platform may still work on it.
    Please select the platform to use for toolchain downloads:
    
    0) Cancel
    1) Ubuntu 24.04
    2) Ubuntu 22.04
    3) Ubuntu 20.04
    4) Ubuntu 18.04
    5) Fedora Linux 39
    6) RHEL 9
    7) Amazon Linux 2
    8) Debian GNU/Linux 12
    Pick one of the available selections [0-8] : 
    
    8 
    Installing swiftly in /home/debby/.local/share/swiftly/bin/swiftly...
    Creating shell environment file for the user...
    Updating profile...
    Fetching the latest stable Swift release...
    Installing Swift 6.2.3
                      Downloading Swift 6.2.3
    100% [========================================================]
    Downloaded 947.6 MiB of 947.6 MiB
    
    Verifying toolchain signature...
    Extracting toolchain...
    The file `/home/debby/ent/agateteper/.swift-version` has been set to `Swift 6.2.3`
    The global default toolchain has been set to `Swift 6.2.3`
    Swift 6.2.3 is installed successfully!
    There are some dependencies that should be installed before using this toolchain.
    You can run the following script as the system administrator (e.g. root) to prepare
    your system:
    
        apt-get -y install libicu-dev libcurl4-openssl-dev libedit-dev libsqlite3-dev 
        libncurses-dev libpython3-dev libxml2-dev pkg-config uuid-dev libstdc++-12-dev

So far, there have been no surprises, and the library warns about potential issues very explicitly, I quite like it.

Of course, if it's just a handful of fields that need mapping, than write manually is the way to go, specially if said fields require a custom mapping, where the library would not facilitate.

I really like Emacs' flexibility + evil-mode and reactivity, recently I searched for something similar and found Lem: https://github.com/lem-project/lem, looks promising, I'll try it out and compare with Emacs when I have the chance and time.

The listeners were scattered between replicas, so we took advantage of Advisory Locks (https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/explicit-locking.htm...) by choosing a unique key (unique to the data being sent) and before performing any task on the JSON payload, that the notification would send, we would first check the lock and continue the routine.

The NOTIFY routine was triggered after an insert in an Outbox table, so we could replay it if it failed for some reason.

Unfortunately I don't remember the exact reason we didn't use it, but I was bit sceptical for 2 reasons:

- I had a feeling that I was use this feature in a wrong way; and

- I read both the article and comments from this HN entry: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44490510, and my first point felt validated;

but to this day I'm still unsure. Anyway, since it was a complementary system, it didn't hurt to leave it out, we had another background job that would process the outbox table regardless, but I felt it could/would give something closer to "real time" in our system.

Then, I removed the graphical settings, as I was aiming to use SSH instead of emulated TTY that comes ON by default with UTM (at that time).

Finally, I set up some basic scripting to turn the machine on and SSH into it as soon as sshd.service was available, which I don't have now, but the script finished with this:

(fish shell)

    while not ssh -p 2222 arch@localhost; sleep 2; end;

    virsh start arch-linux_testing && virsh qemu-monitor-command --hmp arch-linux_testing 'hostfwd_add ::2222-:22' && while not ssh -p 2222 arch@localhost; sleep 2; end;

    arch@archlinux ~> sudo systemctl mask systemd-time-wait-sync.service 
    arch@archlinux ~> sudo systemctl disable systemd-time-wait-sync.service

[1]: https://gitlab.archlinux.org/archlinux/arch-boxes/-/packages...

I'm rereading it for the fourth time, in less than 2 years. There's a variety of themes:

- political intrigue; - religion; - moral, ethics; - companionship; - brotherhood;

etc. Xenophon is eloquent and straight to the point, I really like his approach in this narration.

Now, on the topic of "rereading", I've often thought that maybe I should (have) read other books; that perhaps I was "spending too much time" in one book, but I just don't care enough to ruminate on this thought, and besides, there's always something new to learn from it.

Concurrently I'm reading "Crime & Punishment", which I also recommend.

[Edit] Well, there's a nice, special article for this very question: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/standard/design-gui...