jkercher (u/jkercher)

jkercher commented on Odin: A programming language made for me zylinski.se/posts/a-progr... · Posted by u/gingerBill

lblume · 3 months ago

May I ask what specifically you dislike about Rust (and Zig)? All the features you mentioned are also present in these languages. Do you care about a safety vs. simplicity of the language, or something else entirely?

jkercher · 3 months ago

Rust and Zig are both perfectly fine languages. Odin wins on simplicity and familiarity for me. I'm most productive in C which is what I use at work. So, for me, it's a better C with some quality of life improvements. It's not trying to be too radical, so not much to learn. The result is that I move can fast in Odin, and it is legitimately fun.

jkercher commented on Odin: A programming language made for me zylinski.se/posts/a-progr... · Posted by u/gingerBill

jkercher · 3 months ago

When I first heard about Odin, I thought, why another C replacement?! What's wrong with rust or zig? Then, after looking into it, I had a very similar experience to the author. Someone made a language just for me! It's for people who prefer C over C++ (or write C with a C++ compiler). It has the things that a C programmer has to implement themselves like tagged unions, slices, dynamic arrays, maps, and custom allocators. While providing quality of life features like distinct typing, multiple return values, and generics. It just hits that sweet spot. Now, I'm spoiled.

jkercher commented on Let's blame the dev who pressed "Deploy" yieldcode.blog/post/lets-... · Posted by u/skwee357

skwirl · a year ago

> If a software engineer tells you that this code needs to be 100% test covered, that AI won’t replace them, and that they need 3 months of development—then you better shut the fuck up and let them do their job.

This is so naive that it is impossible to take the author seriously.

jkercher · a year ago

What's naive?

jkercher commented on Nvidia Warp: A Python framework for high performance GPU simulation and graphics github.com/NVIDIA/warp... · Posted by u/jarmitage

raytopia · a year ago

I love how many python to native/gpu code projects there are now. It's nice to see a lot of competition in the space. An alternative to this one could be Taichi Lang [0] it can use your gpu through Vulkan so you don't have to own Nvidia hardware. Numba [1] is another alternative that's very popular. I'm still waiting on a Python project that compiles to pure C (unlike Cython [2] which is hard to port) so you can write homebrew games or other embedded applications.

[0] https://www.taichi-lang.org/

[1] http://numba.pydata.org/

[2] https://cython.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

jkercher · a year ago

I'm not looking for an argument, but my knee jerk reaction to seeing 4 or 5 different answers to the question of getting python to C... Why not just learn C?

jkercher commented on Optimizing ClickHouse: Tactics that worked for us highlight.io/blog/lw5-cli... · Posted by u/podoman

jkercher · a year ago

clickhouse-local is pretty slick as well. You can operate directly on text files as if they were tables. I made my own toy text file database thing and thought I was cool because I could outrun similar programs like q, textql, sqlite, etc. But clickhouse-local had me by a factor of 10 easy in every kind of query with every type of data. Those guys know stuff.

jkercher commented on How far back in time can I take my website's design? ajxs.me/blog/How_Far_Back... · Posted by u/FLpxpyJ

ajxs · 2 years ago

Hi, author here. What was too much? Are you talking about my colourscheme, or my writing? I've actually been trying out different colourschemes for my site lately, and I'm genuinely open to suggestions. I actually took the contrast into account when picking colours, and consciously lowered the overall contrast by saturating the text and background colour a little. I don't think the contrast is much higher than many other dark-themed sites I look at often, like Github for example. I'm sorry you didn't enjoy it either way.

jkercher · 2 years ago

I think he's saying the text should be more muted like the copyright at the bottom.

jkercher commented on Physicists create elusive particles that remember their pasts quantamagazine.org/physic... · Posted by u/peter_d_sherman

jkercher · 2 years ago

Cool. Let us software guys know when we get computers that are 1000x faster so we can write the next language/framework that is 1000x slower.

jkercher commented on UK ditches ban on 'legal but harmful' online content reuters.com/world/uk/uk-d... · Posted by u/isaacfrond

AdrianB1 · 3 years ago

I think there is a widely accepted view that children have limited rights, that may include free speech - porn included. They have no right to vote in all countries, no right to drink in most, no right to own guns (looking at USA mainly), so a limit on free speech does not look like a new approach to children's rights.

jkercher · 3 years ago

I think he is getting at this part "non-mass scale platform." He's implying it only protects the big players that can afford the change.

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