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Jsonnet is pretty nice but the library support isn't quite as good. There are some nice libraries for yaml that do round trip processing for example so you can modify a yaml programmatically and keep comments. Yaml certainly has some warts (and a few things that are just frankly moronic) but it deserves some credit for hitting the sweet spot in a bunch of ways.

I wonder if it will ever be practical or economical to have humans and machines driving together on the roads we have now though. Maybe we'll skip that step and go to robot-only roads with more stuff built into the actual roads.

On Musk, he doesn't need PR so much as to keep his mouth shut for a while and try and deliver on some of his BS instead of spouting more.

Monodraw 11 months ago

It's very effective. Both times I've wanted to give them my money. But mac only, geeze

The goal isn't to use AI, though, it's to be productive. Maybe for you AI + writing support tools to improve your workflow makes you more productive and that's great! For me, for the kind of work I'm currently doing, I'm more productive in other ways.

From the perspective of the traditional server business, such a developer is unfortunately often seen as rather helpless—someone who needs assistance with everything, can’t run their own database, and has no idea what a nameserver is.

Developers who have no idea about how things work (like nameservers and databases) are pretty helpless generally, regardless of whether they call themselves cloud-native developers or not.

GIMP 3.0 1 year ago

That isn't always true, there's plenty of times where companies push features that users don't want. No Chrome users have been clamouring for more ads and more invasive tracking, for example.

I certainly don't claim to be an expert, but I have a hunch that getting to the point where performance becomes a significant factor (in the success or failure of a product) isn't going to be about the choice of language. I also think you're vastly underestimating the performance that good architects can get out of ANY (primary) language through good system design. Good design vs bad design makes the biggest difference in my experience, at least from a technical standpoint. Probably just nonsense though as you say.

I don't think using Zig over Python is gonna have the biggest impact in making your next big company successful. It's a drop in the ocean compared to the quality of people you have to actually design and build it.

SSH Remoting 2 years ago

Microsoft are expert at hiding the strings. I prefer obvious strings if there have to be strings attached.

SSH Remoting 2 years ago

I'm charitably reading it as "if I must develop on a Mac, this is a great way" :)

The language has grown on me a bit. I initially hated it but a lot of my pain was not actually the language but the lack of good docs for the standard library.

Still struggle with the tracebacks though. It's painful when things go wrong.

I found this odd too. It reminded me of a book I read ages ago, sci-fi fantasy where there is a species that is very long-lived but they have a finite memory. Maybe if your memory is a year or two long then GitOps would seem to mean k8s deployments automatically out of git, rather than all the other things.

(I think it was by C.S Friedman but I don't remember which one)