I’ve been having some thoughts on the best languages to use for serializing and configuration. (0/3)

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I will die on the hill that if haskell were eagerly evaluated by default, it would be the simplest language. Pure expressions are so much easier to reason about than statements. Explicit is better than implicit (with the exception of ergonomics).

Haskell’s for loops (for_ in Data.Foldable) are the most beautiful implementation of for loops I’ve ever seen. It just encapsulates exactly what a for loop is. It’s also equally ergonomic to the usual impure languages :).

Me implementing Okasaki’s skew binary random access lists (RAL) in haskell:

How are these nearly an order of magnitude slower than Data.Sequence? The constant factor should be low and the original fingertree paper said RAL was faster.

After compiling with O2:
Oh beautiful. It’s faster now.

Variadic functions and functions with default arguments should be compile time errors.

If they must be used, they should be implemented explicitly either using an alternate type signature (such as Option/Maybe) or with macros. Shoutout to some cool languages like Rust making macro use clear.

Algebraic effects are very cool and a worthy competitor to monads (transformers).

Please tell your kids, every damn day if necessary, that chatGPT is not a goddamn search engine and you shouldn’t believe a word it says. Tell the adults too, but it’s especially imperative to inoculate kids against this

The move to Debian has gone very well so far. The most stable base you can desire, a rich repo of software, fairly good support (if linux support exists for something there’s always a deb package).

If you really need more recent software there’s always a way to get it.

If an OS isn’t at least mostly POSIX compliant, it’s not worth using.

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* OpenOffice is barely developed and has had open security holes for a year or more, DO NOT USE

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* LibreOffice will never give you up, let you down, run around or desert you

One more distro hop will fix me.

the sham legacy of Richard Feynman
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