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New comment by wolfadex in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

wolfadex — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:43:59 +0000

I'm not seeing it in the docs, maybe I should write up a little something on my editing experience!

Also to correct my self, I think I mistakenly said `modal` when I should have said `buffer` earlier.

So searching across the project brings up your results in multiple buffers, each about 5 lines (expandable to more) and you can do all of your normal editing within each/all of the buffers.

If I happen to write something up, I'll try and remember to share it in this thread.

New comment by wolfadex in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

wolfadex — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:37:13 +0000

It does, though I found learning and setting it up to be more complicated. My preferred editor is one that's very simple to setup and use (e.g. Sublime, VSCode, Zed, nano). Emacs is cool, and maybe someday I'll get around to using it but so far it hasn't met my needs.

New comment by wolfadex in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

wolfadex — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:31:01 +0000

When I specified the modal editing I was referring to how the workspace search in Zed brings up each result in an editable "window" allowing me to make edits across my whole project from 1 tab. VSCode's workspace search feels much more limited in comparison.

New comment by wolfadex in "Zed on Linux Is Here"

wolfadex — Wed, 10 Jul 2024 17:17:46 +0000

For me the "killer feature" is a graphical editor (like VSCode or the Jet Brains editors) but with performance more like vim. I'm also very much enjoying the modal editing, which VSCode lacks.

New comment by wolfadex in "Forsp: A Forth+Lisp Hybrid Lambda Calculus Language"

wolfadex — Tue, 11 Jun 2024 14:16:08 +0000

There are Forth like languages, such as Kitten, that have variables and more.

https://kittenlang.org/

New comment by wolfadex in "Ask HN: What Happened to Elm?"

wolfadex — Sat, 11 Feb 2023 14:00:37 +0000

Elm is like American politics. The most vocal people are divided as strongly as if they'd stabbed each other in the back. The majority people aren't vocal and just go about their day, sometimes using it and sometimes not.

My 2 cents. Don't use this place as a metric for whether or not something is successful or worth trying. 20 years ago this community would tell you not to use Ruby or Javascript, but today they'd call you an idiot for not using them.

New comment by wolfadex in "Ask HN: Programs that saved you 100 hours? (2022 edition)"

wolfadex — Tue, 20 Dec 2022 22:03:42 +0000

Elm has easily saved me hundreds of hours per year in compile time alone, not to mentioned the likely thousands of hours it's saved me in time spent debugging. I still shudder to think of the horrendous compile times I got from even small TypeScript projects, and the days I'd waste trying to debug them.

New comment by wolfadex in "Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]"

wolfadex — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 18:32:17 +0000

The guide has a whole section about web components/custom elements https://guide.elm-lang.org/interop/custom_elements.html. I've also found them useful in my code outside of Elm as they work in vanilla JS.

New comment by wolfadex in "Elm at a Billion Dollar Company with Vendr CTO Aaron White [audio]"

wolfadex — Tue, 11 Oct 2022 17:05:53 +0000

I work on the app mentioned in the podcast. It is roughly 600k lines of Elm. I have previously worked at bigger, more well known companies, on apps 1/3 the size if not smaller. I've seen more frequent, and more reliable refactors in this Elm code than any I've worked in before. I'd easily take 1M lines of Elm over 100k lines of any JS framework, and I've worked with most of them.

New comment by wolfadex in "Ask HN: Recommend employers with positive social impact"

wolfadex — Thu, 26 May 2022 16:18:39 +0000

There are a handful of people in the Elm Slack that work for companies that fit this description. I've seen everything from education to green energy and more. Might be a good place to ask. I know each of those companies needs back end devs, and likely had some non-Elm code as well.

New comment by wolfadex in "First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript"

wolfadex — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:41:31 +0000

How would these features replace TypeScript? TypeScript is more than just a syntax as it also requires a compiler, config, IDE tooling, and typically additional plugins to make it compatible with testing tools and bundlers.

New comment by wolfadex in "First look: adding type annotations to JavaScript"

wolfadex — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 14:49:47 +0000

Everyone keeps saying variations of "It would become possible to program (e.g.) TypeScript without compiling the source code." but that's not true. This proposal is only a subset of TypeScript, meaning that all of the existing TS infrastructure would remain and still be used. All this does is further bloat the ECAMScript for no gain.

New comment by wolfadex in "Building apps in minutes, not months"

wolfadex — Sat, 18 Sep 2021 04:07:13 +0000

This reminds me a lot of https://lamdera.com/, though more React and less Elm. Lamdera has the added benefit that changes are deployed in real time instead of having to reload, including in production. This means the user doesn't get those annoying popups saying something like "there are new features, refresh your page".

New comment by wolfadex in "Elm at Rakuten"

wolfadex — Thu, 19 Aug 2021 11:45:36 +0000

I had the opposite experience with my last job interview. I didn't know any Ember but I did know Elm (and other languages and frameworks). My enthusiasm about Elm absolutely contributed to my being hired and my lack of Ember knowledge didn't hurt me. This was what the hiring manager told me.

New comment by wolfadex in "Elm at Rakuten"

wolfadex — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 21:53:49 +0000

I have coworkers using Rails for the back end of their Elm app. I think NoRedInk is using some Rails and some Haskell. I've have a friend who uses Python for his back ends. Also heard that some people really like using F#, as well as Node.

Or if you want to do Elm full stack there's https://lamdera.com/ or https://package.elm-lang.org/packages/choonkeat/elm-fullstac....

New comment by wolfadex in "Compilers as Teachers"

wolfadex — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 12:08:36 +0000

A little history of why Rust's error messages look and read they way they do:

- [1] back in 2015 Elm puts out a blog post titled Compiler Errors for Humans

- [2] then another, Compilers as assistants

- [3] then in 2016 Rust announces they'll borrow from Elm for error messages

Really great that the students were able to see how much the Rust community cares about error message quality.

1. https://elm-lang.org/news/compiler-errors-for-humans

2. https://elm-lang.org/news/compilers-as-assistants

3. https://blog.rust-lang.org/2016/08/10/Shape-of-errors-to-com...

New comment by wolfadex in "Elm Compiler Written in Elm"

wolfadex — Tue, 13 Jul 2021 15:50:15 +0000

We have a team at Square that uses Elm and I've made a few commits. They've been working on their app for around 18 months now.

I find it slightly funny because I also write Svelte at work and that app is public facing so it gets public attention but the Elm app is internal facing so the public will never see it. Also helps that Svelte uses its own name in the code it generates. Which is why I try to promote Elm myself. To semi-quote @SvelteSociety "@Square, a >$100 billon company, uses @elmlang."

New comment by wolfadex in "Women's Pockets Are Inferior (2018)"

wolfadex — Mon, 03 May 2021 22:43:44 +0000

Firstly, my wife would strongly disagree with you.

Your argument implies that women are given the option between many nearly identical pairs of pants, some with large pockets and some with small pockets. Instead they're presented with dozens of pants with only small pockets. Given the choice between pants with small pockets or no pants, they buy pants with small pockets.

New comment by wolfadex in "Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI"

wolfadex — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 02:27:34 +0000

There's also https://github.com/xbmc/elm-chorus

New comment by wolfadex in "Why we chose Elm for Humio’s web UI"

wolfadex — Tue, 20 Apr 2021 01:26:49 +0000

https://github.com/rtfeldman/elm-spa-example is a good example app. I'd also recommend https://codebase.show/projects/realworld in general if you're looking for example apps in various frameworks and languages. I sadly can't share anything from work as it's all private.