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New comment by slowcache in "Spectre Programming Language"

slowcache — Sat, 16 May 2026 01:11:34 +0000

I'm not really sure what niche this fills.

To me, the main draw looks to be the invariants that you can supply within functions, but this isn't a new concept outside of it being a dedicated keyword. Otherwise this looks like rust without all of the functionality

New comment by slowcache in "A better streams API is possible for JavaScript"

slowcache — Fri, 27 Feb 2026 15:18:09 +0000

> high-performance data processing tools in JS

I may be naive in asking this, but what leads someone to building high perf data tools in JS? JS doesn't seem to me like it would be the tool of choice for such things

New comment by slowcache in "Gamedate – A site to revive dead multiplayer games"

slowcache — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 06:47:43 +0000

This is a cool website, and it looks great too

But it definitely could use some better moderation

New comment by slowcache in "I need AI that scans every PR and issue and de-dupes"

slowcache — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 22:21:14 +0000

The reviews must be heavily AI assisted in order to get that sort of volume in.

Either way, it doesn't surprise me that this number is so high. Productivity chasing is the name of the game for AI, regardless of how sustainable or helpful this extra work done actually is

New comment by slowcache in "Al is killing programming and the Python community"

slowcache — Tue, 03 Feb 2026 01:10:24 +0000

This post is like 6 months late. I share the same concerns that others in the thread do, but the talking point is pretty tired by now

New comment by slowcache in "Super Monkey Ball ported to a website"

slowcache — Wed, 28 Jan 2026 02:51:07 +0000

Really blown away at how well this works on mobile. Awesome stuff

New comment by slowcache in "We've got to stop sending files to each other"

slowcache — Thu, 17 Jul 2025 12:39:51 +0000

I was also wondering this. I don't want my codebase to be a shared word document, how will it ever be in a compilable state?

New comment by slowcache in "A Rust shaped hole"

slowcache — Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:50:51 +0000

Odin has been really growing on me lately as a language that checks all of those boxes. String types, first class allocators, built in tests, a batteries included philosophy, and ease of use are some of the things that really drew me towards it.

I really wanted to like rust and I wrote a few different small toy projects in it. At some point knowledge of the language becomes a blocker rather than knowledge the problem space, but this is a skill issue that I'm sure would lessen the more I used it.

What really set me off was how every project turned into a grocery list of crates that you need to pull in in order to do anything. It started to feel embarrassing to say that I was doing systems programming when any topic I would google in rust would lead me to a stack overflow saying to install a crate and use that. There seemed to be an anti-DIY approach in the community that finally drew me away.

New comment by slowcache in "Is there a cost to try catch blocks?"

slowcache — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 01:11:45 +0000

I didn't think that this was much of a thing that needed to be investigated. Adding additional processing into your code will make it slow down.

On a related note, I had a consultant come into my work one time to the teach us some pragmatic things in C++. One of the lessons was that that gcc will not attempt to reorder the code within a try block to optimize it. This could be leading to some very minute slowdown in a C++ app in addition to the overhead associated with try/catch as a whole