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New comment by veqq in "Libghostty 1.0"

veqq — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 05:32:00 +0000

Recent interview with Hashimoto: https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-mitchell...

Exploring Janet and the HTTPF web framework

veqq — Sat, 07 Nov 2026 04:38:24 +0000

Article URL: https://nick.gs/blog/2026-11/exploring-janet-and-the-httpf-web-framework/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50401668

Points: 1

# Comments: 0

New comment by veqq in "The Duty of a Scholar"

veqq — Sun, 01 Nov 2026 04:07:00 +0000

Yes, but with a lower income number.

New comment by veqq in "Ghostty 1.4"

veqq — Wed, 28 Oct 2026 04:30:01 +0000

Here's a recent interview with Ghostty's creator about its philosophy, goals etc. https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-mitchell...

Michal Wallace on Narrative Programming: Why Learn J when LLMs Code?

veqq — Sun, 25 Oct 2026 05:14:39 +0000

Article URL: https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/michal-wallace/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50228537

Points: 2

# Comments: 2

New comment by veqq in "The foolishness of "natural language programming" (1978)"

veqq — Fri, 23 Oct 2026 04:25:25 +0000

Another article on this topic https://alexalejandre.com/programming/no-end-of-programming-...

New comment by veqq in "Four Years with Decker"

veqq — Wed, 21 Oct 2026 07:18:25 +0000

Here's an interview with it's maker: https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-john-ear...

New comment by veqq in "RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]"

veqq — Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:21:11 +0000

> I earned my first paycheck coding Runescape bots in 2004 - https://alexalejandre.com/about/

New comment by veqq in "Free Pascal compiler now supports dynamic packages"

veqq — Mon, 19 Oct 2026 00:37:47 +0000

I've shipped a few things to clients with it in the past 5 years.

New comment by veqq in "Teal – A statically-typed dialect of Lua"

veqq — Sun, 18 Oct 2026 17:01:46 +0000

> considering the creator of Fennel

Techomancy is Fennel's maintainer, but Calvin Rose created it (and then Janet). Here are interviews with both:

- technomancy https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-technoma...

- calvin rose https://alexalejandre.com/interviews/interview-with-bakpakin...

New comment by veqq in "Development statistics for the 7.2 kernel"

veqq — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 21:09:05 +0000

> I think user just use their agents to code, and agents don't report bugs, they just work it around somehow.

It's quite a pity, preventing us from improving our model of the domain, from Naurian theory building and presenting a perfected API etc.

New comment by veqq in "Book Review: Storm of Steel"

veqq — Sat, 17 Oct 2026 06:51:15 +0000

Amazing review! I loved the tie in to duty.

I have seen small parts of the On Pain quote before, thinking they were different parts from Spengler, interesting.

New comment by veqq in "ICE Planning $100M 'Nightmare' Domestic Spy Program"

veqq — Wed, 14 Oct 2026 18:01:39 +0000

If you oppose them, it'd be good to understand them instead of being shocked about straw men. If you'd like to understand them, it's very easy to find their media and thought leaders sharing eg. demographic data. "Remigration" is the key term, now.

New comment by veqq in "Hittite royal archive found in Turkey"

veqq — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 19:01:20 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_cosmism

New comment by veqq in "The United Kingdom generates less electricity per person than in the 1970s"

veqq — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 17:03:22 +0000

UK has some of the highest costs of power in the world. There's a lot of demand destruction there, a lot of industries left. due to high costs.

New comment by veqq in "Tcl/Tk 9.1"

veqq — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 01:06:35 +0000

Tk works well with Janet. I have a working GUI library.

New comment by veqq in "Why Common Lisp is now the best programming language"

veqq — Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:57:11 +0000

Check out https://codeberg.org/veqq/varray implementing APL primitives on tarray (so should be a magnitude faster than the cffi approach), which powers https://codeberg.org/veqq/declarative-dsls which exposes a fair bit of statistics stuff (I have a financial analysis library built on top of it in prod, which I'll try to open source soon) besides logic features

There is also https://codeberg.org/zzkt/deft/ for typing things.

And spork/sh does sh

I invite you to: https://janet.zulipchat.com/ (n.b. there's a very active chat channel)

New comment by veqq in "Calculus with Julia"

veqq — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:24:28 +0000

There are nice APL- and J-based math books with this approach. APL's inventor's main goal was improving mathematics instruction.

New comment by veqq in "Calculus with Julia"

veqq — Mon, 12 Oct 2026 16:23:33 +0000

Have you ever looked into APL or BQN?

New comment by veqq in "Documents add to evidence in climate deception case against ExxonMobil"

veqq — Sun, 11 Oct 2026 15:53:53 +0000

Alas, the comments evince how almost none of the commenters read the article.