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Right, I find Dave's insanity sauce tastes good without having that vinegar flavor.

Not everything should taste like spicy pickles

I would say that all the best elements from the wrong trousers train scene were already done two years earlier in "The Good The bad and the Tigger" from the New adventures of Winnie the Pooh.

Yeah, zstd is awesome. I built a webapp that uses it via wasm and the decompression speed is incredible, so much so that I store everything in zstd and decompress it on the app load. My wasm binary also does advanced search and tag insertion and stuff in addition to zstd but it's only 38kb. I wish zstd was supported natively by web browsers. The 8kb implementation of zstd is only half as slow as wasm, so even that is still viable.

Yeah, 100mb is not a bragging point. That's the size of a full web browser engine

Pretty sure tcl apps look ugly as sin... Python's tkinter is all tcl underneath.

After trying to use libreoffice for typesetting and it being a pain to get the styles and formatting right I switched to Typst. Pretty impressed by it's Khmer language support. A lot lighter than latex or sile.

I just use tsv. No quoted fields required because none of my data ever has tabs

Have you ever noticed that nothing is actually ever better in the app. In the web browser I can change to desktop mode and access all the features they don't have in the app, also in the browser I can block ads.

And now all search engines suck because they want you to use AI rather than finding direct sources.

I also first used Linux via knoppix around 2004. Great introduction. Though my big sister said it was difficult to install it to the hard drive because it's meant to be a live cd, but she managed to do it, .

Knoppix used to have a really good desktop environment with effects and games. I think it had KDE with compiz-fusion. That was awesome. Now it's just bland lxde.

Probably. But at least it's useful and runs locally. Better than all the predatory apps that you have to download 100mbs to do something this website can do instantly without downloading anything or sending anything to a server.

Yeah, now anyone can write really long impressive code with a sophisticated backdoor by using AI.

Can't trust anything anymore. (Not that I ever did trust npm)

I'm amazed by how in-depth the documentation is. Usually projects struggle to get decent docs. (Unless the docs are LLM generated). I'm not sure what's better, the design or the docs.

Like you said in your backstory, it's an awful shame to work so hard on something and have it get absolutely no attention.

I haven't tried out any of the code yet, but I'm curious enough to maybe try it sometime, especially since it has a robust FFI already. I had just uninstalled rust because I'm more of an old school C guy and don't like writing "safe" code.

So you used rust to write a better rust? I'm just kidding. Looks like a real interesting language with some good features without being verbose or ugly.

The backstory is interesting, though I wish it covered more the rationale behind the language and the thought-process that went into its design.

I especially like that track covers everything from switch statements to if-else statements in a nice concise way.

Curious if the 1 based arrays get confusing in @low mode.

As far as the benchmarks go, I didn't see, was there any other languages compared?