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I do wish we were in the timeline where we got a super powered jsdoc, instead of TS.

Something like that would be my guess for what’s next, once this current trend has run its course.

As a glimpse of the future, it’s not particularly encouraging.

For me, JS needs only a handful of things doubling down on its existing nature. Literals for symbols, sets and maps would be a great start.

If we’re getting fancy, persistent / immutable data structures would be fantastic, especially given how modern js is written.

A better standard library would be the cherry on top.

Kafka in Pieces 6 years ago

If there is something out there which is this introduction, would love to read it!

From recent experience using the Pinebook Pro and manjaro, the answer is a resounding yes.

From the start, it was clear that a decent arm chip in a laptop is very usable. Paired with an SSD, and more ram, it would be killer.

MacOS would need some care to make it less heavy in terms of background consumption, but I don’t see that as being beyond Apple’s reach. Windows is a different matter, not sure what MS can bring to the table there.. The work being done right now in porting iOS applications to work on macOS clearly points to a strategy being developed.

Think it’s going to be an interesting couple of years.

Multi band compressors also help in this domain, choosing which frequency band to attenuate or boost. For multi channel audio, phase becomes important too. Not for nothing is a typical trick in mastering to restrict low frequencies to mono..

Portugal still has the crazy tax system where deductions are applied over the whole salary, not the bands? That was one thing that never made any sense to me - effectively removing motivations for salary increases, as you could end up with less even with a raise.

just wanted to point out that the joy of these approaches is that you can render on the server with the same components. the method for feeding it data obviously differs, but that's (when done right) pretty minimal.

my favourite way of demonstrating this was actually to turn js off and still see everything working. the progressive enhancement flag is still flying, and tools like this make it easier by far.

in this case, the server could be (soon!) java/clojure, which is insanely hard to do in an idiomatic, pleasant way with react components. really looking forward to getting this all wired up, and if anyone is interested we're discussing how to get hdom talking to CLJS here: https://github.com/thi-ng/umbrella/issues/36

Datomic Cloud 9 years ago

For sure! looking forward to becoming a customer. I guess the journey I went through was missing some intermediate step between playing at the repl with an in memory db (which I believe you’ve mentioned before as being a good way to get hands dirty from zero), to having something in dev which was backed by storage, to a toy service, to production.

Jumping into AWS, at least in my work environment, is a big jump requiring lots of supporting infrastructure etc. We’ll get there if it works out, but the dockerized setup is really helping in learning and evaluation.

Officially supported ways of doing this is something i’m sure you’ve considered before, it would be nice if cognitect could reconsider this.

Datomic Cloud 9 years ago

There's a few people asking about how to get something up quickly to play with - this was a problem for me, and it isn't really well explained, but for those interested, Alexander Kiel's datomic free docker image has worked well for me - https://hub.docker.com/r/akiel/datomic-free/ - and an example of it being used with docker compose is here: https://github.com/dazld/urlomic/blob/cc3d1218218b5f08751dfa... (on a wip branch for some playground thing). I'm far from a pro, but hope this helps someone interested in this tech.