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isoos commented on Show HN: I made a 2D game engine in Dart   bullseye2d.org/... · Posted by u/joemanaco
socalgal2 · 2 months ago
I hope this isn't off topic. What is the draw of Dart? In other words, what does it claim to do special or emphasize over other langauges? Like if you were going to try to convince someone they should give Dart a try, what reasons would you give?
isoos · 2 months ago
Modern, but sane syntax (readable), good defaults (strong typing, null safety...), good-enough runtime performance, good APIs and tooling out of the box, cross-platform (also hot-reload on some, AOT). The list goes on, what specifics do you care about more?
isoos commented on Open Riak – open, modern Riak fork   github.com/OpenRiak... · Posted by u/amarsahinovic
isoos · 9 months ago
Basho team was very kind to open source contributions in ~2011-12: I've written an open source Riak client in Dart, and they had sent me t-shirts (the quality ones that are rare today). Nice treats for a fun project :)

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isoos commented on REPL for Dart   github.com/fzyzcjy/dart_i... · Posted by u/tosh
mhoad · a year ago
They dropped that “client side” framing a while back thankfully. It’s considered a general purpose language at this point.
isoos · a year ago
One of the postgresql client packages (posgres) is roughly 8 years old. That's how "client side" it ever was...
isoos commented on AMD Unveils Ryzen 9000 CPUs for Desktop, Zen 5   anandtech.com/show/21415/... · Posted by u/rx_tx
irusensei · a year ago
I'll probably wait one or two years before getting into anything with DDR5. I've blew some money on an AMD laptop in 2021. At the time it was a monster with decent expansion options: RX 6800m, Ryzen 9 5900HX. I've stuck it with maximum 64GB DDR4 and 2x 4TB psi 3.0 nvme. Runs Linux very well.

But now I'm seeing lots of things I'm locked out. Faster ethernet standards, the fun that brings with tons of GPU memory (no USB4, can't add 10Gbe either), faster and larger memory options, AV1 encoding. It's just sad that I bought a laptop right before those things were released.

Should had go with a proper PC. Not doing this mistake anymore.

isoos · a year ago
It sounds like you need a desktop workstation with replaceable extension cards, and not a mostly immutable laptop, which has different strengths.
isoos commented on Dart 3.4: WASM and Macros preview   medium.com/dartlang/dart-... · Posted by u/markdog12
thayne · a year ago
I assume it is a reference to Google laying off all their dart and flutter engineers [1]. So I'm not sure who is still maintaining either project.

[1]: https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from...

isoos · a year ago
Clearly not all, that would be a different announcement.
isoos commented on Dart 3.4: WASM and Macros preview   medium.com/dartlang/dart-... · Posted by u/markdog12
troupo · a year ago
It's somewhat weird to see Dart still chugging along. A language that cannot figure out what it's for.

Was it a better Javascript? Oh, old history

Was it just a failed project that Google Analytics team used? Oh, old history

It's for Flutter and app development? Not anymore

It's native cross-platform compiled language for apps and backend with a hodgepodge of features haphazardly thrown in? Yes, for now.

isoos · a year ago
Why do you think it must be one thing or the other? It can be better than Javascript, used for Flutter and app development, and also cross-platform compiled and used for backend.
isoos commented on How do you accidentally run for President of Iceland?   uxdesign.cc/how-do-you-ac... · Posted by u/simonw
Wowfunhappy · a year ago
> On that note, I don't see any issue whatsoever with 82 people running for presidency

I wouldn't have an issue if the election used ranked choice voting.

Otherwise, however, it could be a disaster, with the winning candidate only having a tiny percentage of the vote.

isoos · a year ago
Nit: Approval voting (yes/no for each candidate) is easier to implement and also understand. I couldn't rank 82 people, but could yes/no them...

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