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New comment by veqq in "Claude Opus 4.8"

veqq — Fri, 29 May 2026 04:23:35 +0000

wow

New comment by veqq in "AI errno(2) values"

veqq — Thu, 28 May 2026 05:57:52 +0000

> In that hypothetical world where Matklad has infinite time, I definitely want to write a modern take on Emacs using Janet as the core language. - Matklad in https://lobste.rs/s/ntruuu/lobsters_interview_with_matklad

New comment by veqq in "I keep bouncing off the Scheme language"

veqq — Mon, 25 May 2026 05:50:45 +0000

What do you mean by "Assembly-like style"?

New comment by veqq in "Python 3.15: features that didn't make the headlines"

veqq — Thu, 21 May 2026 15:39:00 +0000

There's a good interview about Python internals and management, particularly in relation to free-threading: https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-ngoldba...

New comment by veqq in "Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp"

veqq — Mon, 18 May 2026 23:55:31 +0000

Jank's just supposed to be Clojure with full compatibility, when mature.

Hyperpolyglot Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp

veqq — Mon, 18 May 2026 19:27:25 +0000

Article URL: https://hyperpolyglot.org/lisp

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48184322

Points: 214

# Comments: 46

New comment by veqq in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

veqq — Fri, 15 May 2026 19:22:44 +0000

I manage some client websites made with https://github.com/joy-framework/joy for example https://codeberg.org/veqq/janetdocs/

Some email stuff I don't know how to summarize well

Some data processing/aggregation servers

Some accounting stuff

I'm trying to build a declarative DSL https://lobste.rs/s/ylq7sd/what_are_you_doing_this_weekend#c... which I could port production Common Lisp/Prolog stuff to, but I probably won't for performance reasons.

New comment by veqq in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

veqq — Mon, 11 May 2026 02:16:03 +0000

It's a bit harder as Fennel can produce pure functions, whereas basically everything in Janet's standard library outputs mutable structures etc. Janet style tends towards (elegant) imperative programming.

New comment by veqq in "Show HN: I made a Clojure-like language in Go, boots in 7ms"

veqq — Sun, 10 May 2026 03:09:51 +0000

Nice! I recently played around with a Lisp syntax for Go semantics: https://codeberg.org/veqq/Joe

As far as JVM-free Clojure-like, Janet is really nice. I've been using it in production for a while: https://janet-lang.org/ There's also Fennel if you want the Lua vm and libraries.

New comment by veqq in "APL\? (1990)"

veqq — Tue, 28 Apr 2026 23:51:54 +0000

APL is booming. There are a fair amount of new jobs onboarding non-APLers. Offshoots like BQN and Uiua have nice communities too.

New comment by veqq in "John Earnest, array language audio+graphics hacker"

veqq — Thu, 16 Apr 2026 05:52:59 +0000

This interview put me down a rabbit hole exploring tables. Janet recently "got" dataframes which I merged with Lil's query language: https://codeberg.org/veqq/vutils/src/branch/master/dataframe... I'm happy with the overall picture but it still needs work.

It roundtrips csvs into/from dataframes `(load-csv "temp-titanic.tsv" :sep "\t" :header false)`, filters, joins, inserts rows etc.

    (def people {:name @["Alice" "Sam" "Thomas" "Sara" "Walter"]
                 :age  @[25 28 40 34 43]
                 :job  @["Developer" "Sales" "Developer" "Developer" "Accounting"]})
    (def salaries {:job    @["Developer" "Sales" "Accounting"]
                   :salary @[75000 85000 60000]})
    
    (insert! {:name "veqq" :age 500 :job "Developer"} :into people)
    
    (print-df (select :name
                      [:salary |(* $ 17)] #  change output val to MX Peso
                      [:job "Job Role"] # rename header
            :where |(> ($ :salary) 70000)
            :from people :join salaries))

Outputs:

    Job Role   name    salary 
    ---------  ------  -------
    Developer  Alice   1500000
    Sales      Sam     1700000
    Developer  Thomas  1500000
    Developer  Sara    1500000
    Developer  veqq    1500000

New comment by veqq in "The APL programming language source code (2012)"

veqq — Sun, 12 Apr 2026 04:59:11 +0000

You can just change keyboard settings in any OS? The same way you change from QWERTY to DVORAK you can change to Cyrillic or... But every APL programmer just uses something like deadkeys, typing e.g. ` before another key like `[ becomes ← or `$ becomes ⍋. The same are largely used for BQN too. Every tutorial teaches how to type explicitly e.g. https://tryapl.org/

If you insist on looking at your keyboard, you can also buy stickers for like $10.

Why are we still using Markdown?

veqq — Fri, 03 Apr 2026 18:03:10 +0000

Article URL: https://bgslabs.org/blog/why-are-we-using-markdown/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47629903

Points: 233

# Comments: 309

New comment by veqq in "r/programming bans all discussion of LLM programming"

veqq — Thu, 02 Apr 2026 07:00:00 +0000

https://lobste.rs/

New comment by veqq in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

veqq — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 19:10:32 +0000

Yes, clojure-like is good

New comment by veqq in "Clojure: The Documentary, official trailer [video]"

veqq — Tue, 31 Mar 2026 16:13:43 +0000

https://janet-lang.org is already Clojure without the JVM

New comment by veqq in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

veqq — Mon, 30 Mar 2026 02:54:31 +0000

China's been building dozens of them, some going up in 4 years. It's very easy to google this. https://www.reddit.com/r/nuclear/comments/1hsvl0w/chinese_re...

New comment by veqq in "LG's new 1Hz display is the secret behind a new laptop's battery life"

veqq — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 18:37:46 +0000

Really disappointing to only learn this after a decade, but on Linux changing from 60hz to 40hz decreased my power draw by 40% in the last hour since reading this comment.

New comment by veqq in "Slovenia becomes first EU country to introduce fuel rationing"

veqq — Sat, 28 Mar 2026 04:37:38 +0000

You can put up a plant in 5 years without erroneous regulation.

John Earnest Interviewed about K, Lil, Decker

veqq — Fri, 20 Mar 2026 18:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://alexalejandre.com/programming/interview-with-john-earnest/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47458689

Points: 5

# Comments: 0