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default argument values are a property of named functions, not of function types, and cannot be expressed in the type system.

For what reason? Isn't the gripe exactly with the fact that it's not implemented?

Also why are arguments required to be named in all calls after the first, but not the first?

func f(a: Int)(b: Int)(c: Int) -> Int { return a + b + c }

let v = f(2)(b: 5)(c: 5)

Stuff like this just eats at me when i use a language, especially when that language is brand new and other languages have had nice syntax for similar features for a long time.

No, you don't. There's nothing stopping you from creating `NSURLRequest` directly.

There is a lot of basic http setup missing from NSMutableURLRequest that needs to live somewhere.

Request serializers are not unlike any other class in Cocoa, like say NSURLSessionConfiguration, which is not often mutated beyond initial setup, but exposes properties to remain flexible and not overwhelm the user with init parameters.

Except NSURLSessionConfiguration is more of a data type, right? By that I mean it is just a blob of parameters that can be inspected. The serializer is not just a configuration, it's something with an 'er' on the end. Plus, many of its properties are direct duplications of NSMutableURLRequest that could just be set after the fact in a wrapper function. AFJSONRequestSerializer and others suggest i follow a pattern of subclass inheritance to provide further customization when everything is just permutations on values of a core set of parameters.

You'd have to create classes for each kind of part, which gets complicated because AFNetworking handles data, files, and streams alike. So that's, like, 3 extra top-level classes. And even that doesn't really work, since it makes it really difficult to just append data to the multipart body manually, in case there was some missing functionality that AFN didn't provide. Add to that the consideration of how to specify options on the stream itself, like throttling...

I don't understand this argument. What's wrong with creating the simple data types for the cases you need to cover? What is the importance of the top level class count metric? Would a fourth top level data type for the raw data case suffice? Can't throttling go in a parameter of the outer configuration data type?

You should give all of that another look—it's one of the best parts of AFNetworking.

Maybe. When i look at it i see class hierarchies, singletons, and protocols with contractual state manipulation for a case that seems to (maybe it doesn't?) reduce to an output (NSMutableURLRequest) that's a straight function of a bunch of inputs.

I keep on dreaming of something as simple as the Python's requests module for Cocoa.

FWIW this is exactly what i suspected when i saw it.

AFNetworking seems to still have too much in the way for my taste, but maybe i'm missing something. Couple of questions:

If i want to generate url requests, i have to use a serializer class. For me, it seems like overkill to have a stateful serializer. Are there a lot of cases where people change the state of the serializer once created? If not, then wouldn't it be better to just expose all the setup functionality through simple wrapper functions instead of wrapper classes, and let people layer these as they see fit (possibly with server-specific categories)?

For multipart requests, why did a protocol with appends and requiring a block with stateful appends end up making more sense than just taking an array of the parts? My impression is that it feels like a lot of chatter for multipart setup. It seems like something that could just be encapsulated as one output from a set of inputs (function). In practice, i've found this approach works better for me.

Still too complicated. IMO none these libraries should hide NSMutableURLRequest. A lot of their functionality can and should just be exposed as category extensions to NSMutableURLRequest and a bag of utility functions.

We should expose composable pieces to assist with use of the existing APIs, not build monolithic wrappers that get in our way by hiding entire chunks of APIs in the guise of simplicity, since eventually this just requires us to reimplement the needed abstractions in a different way once our wrappers' limitations become apparent.

So today, it's simple. Tomorrow, since it sees more use by people with different needs and it ends up looking a little more like AFNetworking. The next day upstream adds some features that don't quite fit with how simple we thought everything should be, so we twist things a little. And one day we look up and it's all really complicated, so we scrap everything and start again with a nice simple wrapper to hide all that stupid stuff.

And some days later, someone needs to satisfy a network requirement, but since the authors of all of their different dependencies chose different network wrappers (they each had an opinion about what not to expose), everything is really hard to centralize.

Agreed, application-level tab support is a short term win. I wouldn't want to use a browser without them, but i would rather it was all a well thought out part of my main interface.

Yes. We all lose here today.

So if you write core software for an architecture without privsep you must not call it a kernel?

It's a statically linked program, real memory, diskless system, kernel-mode-only kernel without too much fluff in the video i/o abstraction.

It is already a kernel, technically, right?

Things get even more exciting when you want to push that submodule commit afterwards to fix things, only to find out that someone sneaked in a commit in the meantime! Now you’ll have to create a new commit on the top-level project to point it to your rebased commit, hah!

I don't quite understand this one. "Now you’ll have to create a new commit...". At this point, you haven't yet created a top-level project commit at all.

If the sequence is commit to submodule, push submodule, update top-level module, where is the headache that is unique to submodules here?

If that’s not enough to convince you, you should try branching with this setup. You’ll have to manually branch (and later merge) each of your submodules when you create a new branch. In the past, I have worked with a git repository containing a dozen tightly-coupled submodules for code-sharing with other teams. Needless to say, it didn’t take very long to realize that submodules are not suited for that use case.

Why was submodule better than just using a single repo and multiple remotes in this case? Or put another way, what did you gain by having separate repos if all the repos branch and come back in exactly the same way.

I feel like i can still make a lot of commits on both top-level and submodules but not have a headache, the parallel branching thing seems odd to me.

Cool, but i think most people would not call this an OS course.

I set a one hour timer on my phone. The agreement with myself is that i will not stand up, not open a browser for something unrelated, not go to the bathroom, not speak to anyone, not listen to anyone, not do anything but focus on the one task at hand until the timer goes off. This can be planning or actually writing code, but i only work on the task.

By the time the timer goes off, i'm usually pretty immersed. The more i do it the less i use the timer, i just need it to get out of slumps.

And i don't start the timer unless i'm sure i'm ready to commit the hour. Deciding to commit alone helps me get rolling.

My hobby OS is x86_64 only, straight C. It's GPLv3. I wrote it with the intention of writing a tutorial, partly because of this void, but still have not written the tutorial :)

https://github.com/nwg/nanos

x86_64 bootup / structures

https://github.com/nwg/nanos/blob/master/src/boot.asm

https://github.com/nwg/nanos/blob/master/src/kernel_init.asm

Does soylent contain actual soy or not? If not is it still going to affect estrogen like soy? What are the actual facts on excess soy (or anything in its makeup that's included in soylent) and estrogen? What are any hormonal changes that have been seen in the months of testing so far if this has been tested?

I feel like i have to read period-ridden marketing in a really dramatic way. In my head.

And if i'm not doing that, then i just have ideas. Separated.

Periods. Overused. In marketing. So much. Appears normal.

There was something similar to this about two weeks ago here, with vars and lambdas in c99. It was less of a full blown language and more just functions and preprocessor definitions to be used in C. I am having trouble finding it now. Does anyone remember the name of this other project? I'd like to check these both out.

github: nwg

Does anyone know, or can anyone speculate on exactly how the "heterogenous payloads" are specified?