Readit Newshyperbrainer commented on My Ideal Array Language ashermancinelli.com/csblo... · Posted by u/bobajeff
⊢×0≠∧˝˘∧⌜∧˝ # Marshall & Dzaima (tacit!)
(≠⥊∧´)˘{×(⌾⍉∧)0≠} # Dzaima & Rampoina
{×(∧˝˘∧≢⥊∧˝)0≠} # Dzaima
I see it as beautiful the same way Galadriel would be beautiful as the Dark Queen. Utterly captivating and powerful, and yet something that should never be.
hyperbrainer commented on Seed7 – Extensible Programming Language seed7.net... · Posted by u/0x54MUR41
I’ve never liked the idea of the syntax where functions are declared and then assigned to variables. I guess it’s supposed to be elegant?
If functions are first class, then they must be stored as variables. I mean, consider any FP Language.
120Hz limit for high refresh rate support seems strange. The most common refresh rate for high refresh rate monitors is 144Hz, and faster refresh rates are available. If you run a 120fps animation on a 144Hz monitor you'll get duplicated frames, which negates a large part of the benefit.
My first thought was that this was done with consideration for mobile phones, since many higher-end models use 120 Hz displays, but Ladybird does not seem to support mobile for now.
> Websites using requestAnimationFrame now render at up to 120Hz on supported hardware
But the phrasing of it about "can now" suggests to me that this may simply be a performance issue too. They changed it from 60 to 120. Perhaps in the future they can go from 120 to 144 or even 240.
I've sometimes wondered what their plan for this is wrt. people. Richard Hipp is 64, and I don't think he plans to continue working on SQLite until he's 90. I know two other people work on SQLite, but AFAIK he owns the company(?)
That said, I think the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source (as much as anything in this world can be guaranteed anyway). Look at Rust: it's done fine since Mozilla stopped sponsoring it. Go will be fine when/if Google stops sponsoring it. etc.
> the future of SQLite is basically guaranteed on account of being open source
I am not concerned with whether it has a future. But I do fear that the absolute manic focus on code quality, testing and support may take a dive when other programmers take the helm. I am not claiming that there are no developers who are equally careful and/or skilled, but whether the culture of SQLite will persist is, to me, still an open question.
I have never used SQLx, but the best SQL integration I can think of is LINQ. How does this compare to that?
I have been experimenting with rendering fonts in Rust lately. I was pleasantly surprised by how simple reading the ttf file format is. The hard part, of course, is actually doing everything with the bezier curves and contours and filling the insides etc. But if I were to just be working with straight lines, I already have everything I need. Indeed, I used MATLAB's `patch` to quickly check my progress and see the major bugs in my rendering implementations, and got there within a couple hours.
> Interviewer: “What happens if you allocate memory with C’s malloc and try to free it with Rust’s dealloc, if you get a pointer to the memory from C?”
> Me: “If we do it via FFI then there’s a possibility the program may continue working (because the underlying structs share the same memory layout? right? …right?)”