RobertAKARobin

Python is not a great programming language

Let me start off by saying what is nice about Python:

• The philosophy of "one correct way to do things."
• Easy to learn (at the start).
• Pretty complete standard libraries.
• A huge ecosystem of good third-party libraries.
• Forced indentation. It's a mixed bag, but I've worked with too many junior developers who would never have indented otherwise.
• The import system makes it easy to trace the filepath for any dependency.

bpringe

Getting Started with Clojure on Windows

Clojure is an amazingly powerful language. Using it (and watching Rich Hickey videos) has changed the way I think about programming, and the way I code in general. Once I learned the basics of the language, which was a relatively quick process, I fell in love and couldn't look back. I hope this post can help others who are new to Clojure get up and running quickly and painlessly.

This post is opinionated in the sense that I'll suggest certain tools to help those who are new to this scene get on their feet. The things you'll need are:

• Leiningen (pronounced LINE-ing-en) - This is like a package manager, build tool, task manager, and more in one tool. Think npm or nuget, but with more capabilities. There is at least one other build tool for Clojure (boot), but Leiningen is the most widely used.
• JDK - Clojure runs on Java. Throw out any qualms you may have about Java, we aren't coding in Java (though we can through Clojure, and sometimes tha

sebmarkbage

I heard some points of criticism to how React deals with reactivity and it's focus on "purity". It's interesting because there are really two approaches evolving. There's a mutable + change tracking approach and there's an immutability + referential equality testing approach. It's difficult to mix and match them when you build new features on top. So that's why React has been pushing a bit harder on immutability lately to be able to build on top of it. Both have various tradeoffs but others are doing good research in other areas, so we've decided to focus on this direction and see where it leads us.

I did want to address a few points that I didn't see get enough consideration around the tradeoffs. So here's a small brain dump.

"Compiled output results in smaller apps" - E.g. Svelte apps start smaller but the compiler output is 3-4x larger per component than the equivalent VDOM approach. This is mostly due to the code that is usually shared in the VDOM "VM" needs to be inlined into each component. The tr

nrinaudo

Introduction

I was recently asked to explain why I felt disappointed by Haskell, as a language. And, well. Crucified for crucified, I might as well criticise Haskell publicly.

First though, I need to make it explicit that I claim no particular skill with the language - I will in fact vehemently (and convincingly!) argue that I'm a terrible Haskell programmer. And what I'm about to explain is not meant as The Truth, but my current understanding, potentially flawed, incomplete, or flat out incorrect. I welcome any attempt at proving me wrong, because when I dislike something that so many clever people worship, it's usually because I missed an important detail.

Another important point is that this is not meant to convey the idea that Haskell is a bad language. I do feel, however, that the vocal, and sometimes aggressive, reverence in which it's held might lead people to have unreasonable expectations. It certainly was my case, and the reason I'm writing this.

Type classes

I love the concept of type class

ryanflorence

const React = require('react')
const ReactDOMServer = require('react-dom/server')
const { createServer } = require('http')
const App = require('./build/static/js/main.49fed57c').default

createServer((req, res) => {
  const el = React.createElement(App)
  const html = ReactDOMServer.renderToString(el)
  res.write(html)
  res.end()

developit

PreloadableWorker

There's no way to <link rel=preload> a Web Worker. This fixes that.

npm i -S gist:developit/567dde2346d785b2628224fddbf6783c

<!-- workers are now just a normal script preload: -->
<link rel=preload href=/path/to/worker.js as=script crossorigin>

PascalSalesch

const work = (() => {
  let workload = []
  let cursor = null

  setImmediate(async () => {
    while (true) {
      const workload = await next()

      // implement as much as possible outside the loop
      for (const { context, args, resolve, reject } of workload) {

joelnet

// Y Combinator
const Y = a => (b => b (b)) (b => a (c => b (b) (c)))

// isomorphic Church encoding/decoding
const Church = {
  to: n => f => x => Array.from (Array (n)).reduce (f, x),
  from: f => f (x => x + 1) (0)
}

const True = a => b => a

ryanflorence

Everything I Know About UI Routing

Definitions

1. Location - The location of the application. Usually just a URL, but the location can contain multiple pieces of information that can be used by an app
   1. pathname - The "file/directory" portion of the URL, like invoices/123
   2. search - The stuff after ? in a URL like /assignments?showGrades=1.
   3. query - A parsed version of search, usually an object but not a standard browser feature.
   4. hash - The # portion of the URL. This is not available to servers in request.url so its client only. By default it means which part of the page the user should be scrolled to, but developers use it for various things.
   5. state - Object associated with a location. Think of it like a hidden URL query. It's state you want to keep with a specific location, but you don't want it to be visible in the URL.

rauschma

Teaching the practically useful parts of computer science

I think the practically useful parts of computer science could easily be taught via a book (or similar).

General considerations:

• I think I only every really learned abstract concepts when I could play with them via a programming language. For example:
  • Logic via Prolog
  • Rewrite rules via Maude