Readit NewsI wanted a Sway-like experience but with a desktop experience, and so tried it.
It's surprisingly good: a DE with powerful enough window tiling.
It's now my daily driver.
Since they're backed by a sole company, I'm still not convinced on their longevity, but remain hopeful!
I'm not familiar with Pop OS, which I now realise is what the post is.
It's hamstrung by archaic naming conventions that confuse newcomers. What CL calls a system is roughly analogous to what most other languages call a package. What CL calls a package is what other languages call a namespace.
Despite all that it's a pretty good language if you can find libraries for what you need. The de facto standard implementation (sbcl) has a very good compiler and an acceptable GC. The language itself is expressive and it makes for very quick and pleasant DX. I love writing common lisp.
Or a crate, or an artifact, or a module, or a gem, and there's probably other variations I can't remember off-hand.
> * What CL calls a package is what other languages call a namespace.*
Or a module, or a package, or... actually, I don't know what Perl or Ruby call it. I believe C calls it a header, but that's not quite the same thing as a package.
Turns out naming things is difficult (as well as cache invalidation, off-by-one errors concurrency, and).
>Sometimes you don't want a language that keeps you safe. Sometimes you want one that simply gets out of your way.
D lang is a wonderful Goldilocks in this regard between C and Rust. It has D-as-better-C [1]. There's no head scratching macro, excellent meta programming, bare metal programming and fast compile time and run time [2]. The programming syntax is very intuitive with UFCS [3].
[1] Better C:
https://dlang.org/spec/betterc.html
[2] Ask HN: Why do you use Rust, when D is available? (255 comments):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23494490
[3] Function:
https://dlang.org/spec/function.html
Uniform Function Call Syntax seems neat, but is it really uniform? In other words, can you call a random method defined on a class via method(class, parameters)? Or are some things more uniform than others?