librasteve

uncanny valley

can it do brummie?

The median income in Southern England is comparable, but house prices are 2-3x higher. Not surprising that we moan about tax subsidies getting paid to folk with a better lifestyle.

also they need the tax to pay for the Irish Navy to prevent Putin from cutting the fiber

raku -pe 'tr/a..z/b..za/' <<< etbjxntqrdke

sadly, I think we are stuck with JSON as the most reliable way to get data / code in and out of an LLM (could be worse, could be YAML) … I’m interested in custom DSLs that improve LLM predictability and it is quite nice to see that even the Microsoft dinosaur “gets it” … see the Contacts example at https://slangify.org/examples which does VCARD to JCARD round tripping as a way to easily roll your own DSL

or

  raku -e 'say "etbjxntqrdke".comb.map({chr .ord + 1}).join'

this is awesome - I wonder how this would combine with DSL tools like https://slangify.org

<<And finally, programming is simply fun. It's a joy. My calling in life is to spread the joy of programming,>>

must be a Raku coder -Ofun

what, no HTMX?

This post from perl and raku thought leader Damian Conway explains the newly formed The Raku Foundation came about.

i suppose you have to at least try tailwind if you advocate for LOB … in https://harcstack.org, I have started with https://picocss.com which keeps the HTML squeaky clean. it is open to other Themes down the line and I have not rules tailwind out, but I suspect that it will make me feel dirty when I come to it. in general hArc is able to leverage Raku roles for code decomposition and the optimum design is settling on pinning CSS styles to elements (grid, table, form, etc) and encapsulating them so that changes to one thing do not cascade to another

yeuch … should’ve used https://harcstack.org, like the new https://raku.foundation site

Counterpoint:

“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.”

— Roy Batty

does rust have FFI, then? (aka stable ABI)

goodbye old friend

surely the year is 2038

“The web stack you already know” - not https://harcstack.org then :-)

or you could just use Raku and its “surprisingly good lisp impression”:

https://www.codesections.com/blog/raku-lisp-impression/

yeah to "deep rooted seething envy"

and yes, LLM is moving HLL to a back seat - but not eliminating it entirely - otherwise, why not have your LLM emit ASM (or binary)

fortunately Raku got enough https://stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/raku and https://rosettacode.org/wiki/Category:Raku that it made the cut to be usable on LLMs

so it is also (just) possible to argue that since the relevance and attention on the HLL you pick choice is diminished, now you can just pick one you like as opposed to sticking with the Python / Go / Rust straightjackets

well, yeah - but noting that there were many consultations and opportunities to challenge this decision and I (for one) would have complained if I didn't think that NL was a solid choice

well the whole point of the rename is to sidestep the Perl vs. Raku navelgazing

sorry about the 502, glad to hear that is now resolved - there is some dogfooding going on with this site (uses https://harcstack.org)

well yeah the call to action is for all interested folks to register so that we can share details on how to become a member of the foundation

The site explains "why the EU" as follows:

A driving motivation for the immediate formation of The Raku Foundation in a country in the European Union is the Cyber Resilience Act, which will make it mandatory for any software that is sold or licensed in the European Union to define its dependencies, to have a mechanism for reporting and fixing faults, and establishes legal responsibility for those who sell software. This has major consequences for FOSS developers, which the EU has taken into account, by creating a new category of entity called Open-source software steward.

As to why NL:

So you gotta choose an EU nation - the choice of NL was really a convenience (the main driver of the project lives there), but NL also has innate strengths as a home as is pretty neutral choice (ie not France, Germany) and a lot of SWE talent and good English speaking skills (even if the legal docs are in local language).

lol - I guess there is no defence for the long delays in getting Perl6 out of the door (2000-2015) and for sure that Osborned perl (5) and created a justified reaction from the perl community who wished that it had never happened. Thus the (slow) divorce with this being the decree nisi.

Turns out that Larry (and the team) were much better at language design than project management.

That said, since 2015 we have been blessed with an awesome new language.

see also https://dev.to/lizmat/a-year-later-a-trf-1lh0 for some history and perspective

This is one of the leading members of the Raku community and the original founder announcing the establishment of The Raku Foundation (a break away from the TPRF)

great post … thanks for all the work

personally I would like to see a compare and contrast between the Intel 8087 (built around an full width adder), 287 and the Weitek 1167 (built around a full width mac and barrel shifter)

as you note, all these parts were pushing the transistor limits of their day

PS. and the Inmos T800 had a log shifter … so a compromise between those extremes

glad you mention https://slangify.org … we are pulling together a set of tooling and example DSLs to make this kind of LLM-DSL combination super easy

whatever you do, don’t search urban dictionary for DSL definition