LispSporks22

I’m of limited mental capacity. Who’s doing the supervising in this thing?

Nice. I worked on a Linux disto when I was a wee lad and all we did was compute a new md5 and ship it.

Too much typing ‘if err..’ everywhere

We have some Perl scripts that are freaking immortal.

The rest of the code base started in Java, then Clojure, now it’s Go. The scripts are there still in their very-not-modern Perl style though. They have a self-evaluating behavior consisting of data blocks that are interpolated. To be honest, I’m not sure exactly how it works. Very discouraging for the casual passerby looking for some cleanup to do.

I love this guy

I’ve hated working on every Angular project I’ve worked on. No matter the team, the experience level or complexity, it’s always been an absolute misery.

I cannot understand how it was invented/why it exists, how smart people at Google convinced themselves to use it. I cannot understand how they let it escape into the wild or even why those not forced to use it, choose it.

I know I’ve begged before for this, and it’s pointless, but please if you’re in the position to, please consider snuffing it out and starting over.

> it's almost unkillable.

Kills my iPhone XS Max daily though.

The navigation is completely broken as well. Some things don’t close, back button might or might not work, never seems to remember where I was before, frequently rescrolling stuff.

This is all after ad blocking.

Without it, endless spam of embedded ads distracting me, wasting my time. Janky loading, page hangs on clicks.

I’m not sure wtf their engineering team is doing but the site’s basically broken. Maybe it’s the normal state of things. Before I was using some third party app that was working great until Reddit killed api access.

My usage of it has dropped as well. It’s just unpleasant to use now.

I think it is direct threaded Forth but there is a conditional token table in there (tokens.asm). Thought it might be some clever hybrid of threading techniques, but I don’t see how tokens is used.

I play around with White Lightening occasionally because of the ease of making games with it on C64 and the comprehensive documentation (PDFs of it have been preserved).

Man, I hate living in a nanny state like Texas where big government is reaching into all parts of peoples lives.

Parents really need to stop putting iPads in toddlers hands and actually start, err, parenting.

Does this one have a good REPL experience? Like interactive as well as “eval top-level/region/etc” features

> the developer who had implemented the function said he had heard that if/then was inefficient, so he used try/catch instead

I would love to see that function

Well I think we just witnessed the end of CUDA then. We usually code around such brain damage.

Is Signal one of the other platforms they mention?