At least with Rust, there is a specific, defensible goal for why it does that.
Java is just over designed. All of java.io reads like somebody’s Object Orientated Programming 101 final project, and they’d get a B- for it. Lots of things where you can see how they’re abstracting things, but there’s no thought at all in bringing it together in a tidy way.
These days, search engine optimization tends to force new single letter languages into obscurity. Even Go would have issues there if Google hadn’t been behind it.
K&R started with BCPL as their base of inspiration. They then made B, and then C. The followup should be called P.
I was thinking more in the sense of an exercisism.
No JavaScript, just HTML and CSS. Basically no images. The heaviest page dumps 50 rows of logs in a table.
It’s admittedly a fundamentally simple frontend, but we all know of frontends with a simple job and a not so simple frontend.
AJAX everything is icky. It’s part of what’s made browser tabs take more RAM than a typical desktop had in 1998.
I exercised all client side JavaScript from an app I maintain. It’s fast, clean, and the back button always works. I just checked on one of the more complicated pages, and according to Firefox’s memory profile, it takes about 2.6MB of RAM.
Where PHP really goes wrong is mixing HTML and code by default.
How data driven are cartels, anyway? Seems like they should be getting stats on loss rate to busts and calculating that in. They run as a business and want real numbers.
They’re a group that builds their own autonomous submarines. They gotta be calculating this.
Do you leave auto formatting on and deal with Confluence making bad decisions, or leave it off and have to manually set all the formatting?
I go for the second option, but I’m not sure it’s less irritating or not.
GitHub tickets are fine.
Jira is complicated because PMs want it to do everything. It can, but there’s no good reason for it.
I get to say that I’ve truly made it as a programmer. The reason is that I wrote around 75 lines of Rust, came back a year later, and I could see exactly how it works.
In case you’re wondering, it’s a command line Slack client for sending notifications. Colored highlights and everything.
My company sends out emails like “vibe it up” with links to their vibe coding workshops.
I’m getting the impression that people need it explained that “vibe coding” is not supposed to be a complement.
Why are all my variables suddenly named after SS officers?
Meh. Even hosting static files in a RAM disk over localhost, you’re 99% as good as you can be by using the sendfile() system call. The kernel can copy data from one file descriptor to another faster than any userspace program can. Implementing the Length header is a stat() call.
If you’re not on a RAM disk and not on localhost, then disk access or network throughput will predominate.
Assembly is not magic go faster sauce.
What 2003 forum thread did this comment crawl out of?