rainygold's comments

rainygold | 3 years ago | on: The Niche Programmer

I chose Elixir over Clojure simply because the web development story is better (in my opinion) due to the community rallying around Phoenix. I preferred the Lispiness of Clojure but all you have over there is Fulcro and Luminus, the former is far, far too complicated and niche, while the latter is just curated libraries.

rainygold | 4 years ago | on: Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods

LiveView sorta tackles the isomorphic web development side, and while I agree that Lisp is a better syntax you do have hygienic macros in Elixir as well.

rainygold | 4 years ago | on: Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods

Much to the detriment of the language imo, and he didn't help the feeling when he released 'Open Source is not about you'

rainygold | 4 years ago | on: Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods

Community can definitely play a role though I can't help but think that Phoenix and the proselytizing done by Jose and co are the main factors.

Sure, we have Luminus in the Clojureverse but its just not as easy and straightforward as the Rails-like experience of Phoenix. You don't have Hickey personally responding to comments on HN/Reddit etc.

rainygold | 4 years ago | on: Elixir protocols vs. Clojure multimethods

Feels like Elixir has stolen much of Clojure's appeal and 'thunder' as the niche pragmatic functional language.

rainygold | 4 years ago | on: Ask HN: Have you ever taken a 6-month to 1 yr break anytime during your career?

I'm curious as to how you monetised the site? Your site would have been so useful when I moved to the city a few years back.

rainygold | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

Ruby is soon getting type checking via Sorbet. Seems to be the trend nowadays.

rainygold | 6 years ago | on: Python Is Eating the World

Java moved to a six month release cycle and it has breathed new life into the ecosystem as a whole. Its one of the most robust and important languages out there.

Java will likely never truly die because of legacy applications. It's also still firmly set in the market and that is not looking likely to change in the future. Its also the king of microservices with Spring Boot.

Kotlin could well take over the mobile space. Many of the touted benefits of Kotlin are slowly being added to Java itself.

Java itself may decline as a language, but I'm near certain that the JVM will be with humanity forever. Someone will be programming in a JVM language somewhere. Whether it's some future language or Java 532.

rainygold | 6 years ago | on: Front-end design, React, and a bridge over the great divide

I guess a question for you would be why should someone choose a Node / full JS stack over Java Spring, or Django etc?

rainygold | 6 years ago | on: Two potentially life-friendly planets found orbiting a nearby star

Reading that someone else had this opinion of TBP is so valididating. The book receives much hype but the characters are weak and forgettable.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Elixir, Phoenix, Absinthe, GraphQL, React, and Apollo

Anything .Net can be replaced by Java.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Emacs 26.2 Released

Why vscode?

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Daydreaming about the future instead of doing work today

I think you have the Fireplace plugin for Vim but yeah Emacs for any Lisp is a no-brainer.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Fearless Concurrency: Clojure, Rust, Pony, Erlang and Dart

You can also use Actors and elements of the OTP from Erlang in Clojure via certain libraries.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: A Case for a New Language

Glossing over the numerous articles and he's clearly an intelligent fellow. I can't follow even half of the concepts.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Lapis – A web framework for Lua or Moonscript

How does this compare to Sailor?

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Android: The word Google didn't say during the Pixel 3 event

Is Fuchsia considered to be Unix?

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Snap, Flatpak and AppImage, package formats compared

So basically AppImage is the standard we ought to be using?

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Try OCaml

No. Reason would be the closest you can get without using OCaml itself.

rainygold | 7 years ago | on: Lisp and Haskell (2017)

How do you find OCaml to be a more practical language? Interested in trying it out.