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New comment by xedrac in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

xedrac — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 03:14:31 +0000

Gleam looks interesting, but I can't say I'm too impressed with Tangled... it won't even let me sign up.

New comment by xedrac in "Gleam Is Now on Tangled"

xedrac — Sun, 19 Jul 2026 02:27:41 +0000

That was my experience too.

New comment by xedrac in "A Road to Lisp: Which Lisp"

xedrac — Fri, 17 Jul 2026 20:06:07 +0000

Don't forget Jolt! It's clojure built on top of Chez Scheme, which is super cool.

New comment by xedrac in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

xedrac — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:15:46 +0000

Since the Rust support in the kernel is not optional, it already has an impact on platform support, no? Or maybe they are using the gnu toolchain to avoid that?

New comment by xedrac in "Linux 0.11 rewritten in idiomatic Rust, boots in QEMU"

xedrac — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 23:13:00 +0000

If it's written with nostd, I'd expect them to be similar.

New comment by xedrac in "A road to Lisp: Why Lisp"

xedrac — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 15:38:33 +0000

> Less skilled co-workers will make mistakes that will have more consequences when the language is more permissive.

Even the most skilled engineers are going to make these mistakes sometimes. That's the whole point of more restrictive tooling, and why Rust has exploded.

Don't get me wrong. I love Lisp, and use it in some personal projects. But I wouldn't want to use it in must not fail scenarios unless those situations can wait for a human to fix the running image.

New comment by xedrac in "Codeberg Is Down"

xedrac — Sun, 28 Jun 2026 00:37:20 +0000

I'll put my money on AI software contributions...

New comment by xedrac in "Wages in America Are Too Low for the 30% Rule to Work for Renters Anymore"

xedrac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:49:18 +0000

The median alone doesn't paint the whole picture. We need to compare the spread as well. The median doesn't care if you make just under the median, or $1 a month.

New comment by xedrac in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

xedrac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:26:14 +0000

I've only ever used emacs in vim mode (evil-mode). Its vim emulation is the best I've seen anywhere.

New comment by xedrac in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

xedrac — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:24:03 +0000

I'm happy to see these improvements. One thing that has always been annoying with Emacs is how much configuration is required to get a modern editor going. Things like Doom Emacs, and Spacemacs try to solve that problem, but both feel far removed from vanilla emacs. I wish Emacs came with several presets so with a single line, you could transform the editor to different base points. For example, most devs want treesitter highlighting and LSP enabled by default. Why not have a preset like (preset-base-ide-1), so we don't need 200 lines of configuration before we can function? Instead we could build off of a much closer starting point.

New comment by xedrac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

xedrac — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 01:43:33 +0000

I tried Helix for a few weeks and found it to be less efficient overall. Now granted it's hardly fair to compare 3 weeks to 20 years, so maybe with more time I might change my mind. I really missed vim's . key to repeat the last command for example. I think the learning curve for Helix is probably better than Vim, so if you haven't learned vim, it might be worth it. The other challenge though is the ubiquitous nature of vim and vim emulation.

New comment by xedrac in "I Hate (Most) Keyboard 'Fn' Keys"

xedrac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:51:55 +0000

You sound like you would prefer Emacs over Vim.

New comment by xedrac in "Port React Compiler to Rust"

xedrac — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:41:39 +0000

While this is true, the fact that it is Rust provides a much greater level of confidence than if it was Python or something.

New comment by xedrac in "C++: The Documentary"

xedrac — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:56:34 +0000

I have felt this many times. However, the effort involved in writing code does not indicate the amount of issues that code may have. This is why I prefer Rust to C++ these days - it just removes 90% of the development tail, which can be quite long in C++.

New comment by xedrac in "C++: The Documentary"

xedrac — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 20:54:21 +0000

I built my career on C++ and I agree with you. Rust is just superior in almost every way. C++ is dead to me for new projects.

New comment by xedrac in "Waymo pauses Atlanta service as its robotaxis keep driving into floods"

xedrac — Sat, 23 May 2026 00:08:49 +0000

It's funny how people take this perspective for Waymo, but when it comes to Tesla FSD, they are much less forgiving, even though I think Tesla's performance is at least as good, if not better.

New comment by xedrac in "We've made the world too complicated"

xedrac — Sun, 17 May 2026 14:07:22 +0000

> I happen to subscribe to the general belief that we should aim to make life suck less for others in the future.

In pursuit of this noble goal, one can do more harm than good, if not careful. Take for instance a wealthy parent that gifts their child with $5,000,000 so they never have to work, hoping their child's life will be easier than their own. What is the likely result of this gift? A child that never learns the value of money, and goes broke all too soon with no skills to survive.

New comment by xedrac in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

xedrac — Tue, 05 May 2026 17:09:30 +0000

It wasn't legal for the US to separate from England either. Just hypothetically, say Alberta ultimately decides to separate and proclaims their independence. They stop paying into the federal system and set up their own federal government. Ottawa says they will intervene with military force, but the US protects the separatists.

This is not a likely scenario, but it's not at all impossible either.

New comment by xedrac in "Alberta voter list leak is a potential public safety disaster"

xedrac — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:48:33 +0000

I wouldn't be so certain about that. What happens when the vote passes, and the USA formally recognizes an independent Alberta?

New comment by xedrac in "Does Employment Slow Cognitive Decline? Evidence from Labor Market Shocks"

xedrac — Tue, 05 May 2026 11:08:59 +0000

5 weeks, even contiguous is not enough to unwind from decades of job induced stress. I took some time off between jobs, and it was a solid 3 months before I noticed major improvements.