zdimension

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zdimension.at.hn

I make things with computers.

* my blog with text on it: [zdimension.fr](https://zdimension.fr) * my code: [github](https://github.com/zdimension)

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/zdimension_; my proof: https://keybase.io/zdimension_/sigs/YsDs65xqRbedgqtKAxAoazoy9U-04Kju7RV7PwibWyA ]

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Comment · 29 days ago

My memory may fail me, but I'm pretty sure ASP used VBScript, not regular VB. Similar syntax but not the same runtime/environment. ASP could use any Active Scripting language (the other language shipped with Windows being JScript, MS's impl of a subset of JS)

Comment · 3 months ago

Filip Pizło (https://www.filpizlo.com/), according to his website: Director of Programmability and Data Model at Roblox. Previously, I worked at Epic Games (Senior Director of Language Engineering) and Apple (Manager of the JavaScriptCore Team).

He seems to be the main developer of Fil-C: https://github.com/pizlonator/fil-c although there are other contributors.

Comment · 4 months ago

Oh, so that's why JetBrains data thing is called DataLore. TIL

Comment · 6 months ago

Eli5:

Haskell type classes are not classes (like Java or PHP classes); they are comparable to Rust traits -- which are different from PHP traits which are comparable to Java/C# interfaces (with default impls; if you just want contracts you have... PHP interfaces).

A fundamental difference is that you can instantiate/implement a type class (or Rust trait) for any* type, compared to interfaces where each class declares the interfaces it implements. You can therefore create generic (forall) instances, higher kinded type classes, etc.

Comment · 6 months ago

Works on all my servers. This is terrifying.

Comment · 7 months ago

Microsoft started as a programming language company (MS-BASIC) and they never stopped delivering serious quality software there. VB (classic), for all its flaws, was an amazing RAD dev product. .NET, especially since the move to open-source, is a great platform to work with. C# and TS are very well-designed languages.

Though they still haven't managed to produce a UI toolkit that is both reliable, fast, and easy to use.

Comment · 8 months ago

Off-topic, but this ongoing trend of brands getting TLDs is really starting to infuriate me. It's not what TLDs are for! Sony is a Japanese company, so it should use sony.com or sony.jp.

Comment · 9 months ago

Well-written post. Very interesting, especially the interactive widgets.

Comment · 11 months ago

57 is 3 times 19.

The standard divisibility rule for 3, 6 and 9 in base 10 is to sum the digits until you only have one left and check if it's one of those. Here, 5+7=12, 1+2=3, so 57 is divisible by 3.

Comment · 1 year ago

For anyone wondering, NonNull (along with other "constrained" types like NonZero integers) uses internal compiler attributes (https://doc.rust-lang.org/src/core/ptr/non_null.rs.html#72):

  #[rustc_layout_scalar_valid_range_start(1)]

This gives rustc enough information to perform niche optimizations such as collapsing Option<NonNull<T>>.

You can technically use those for your own types, but it requires nightly, obviously.

Comment · 1 year ago

I think "blurry" was used here referring to the fact that they don't really pay attention to the differences between fonts, not to an aspect of the rendering.

Comment · 1 year ago

Title is imprecise, it's Archiveteam.org, not Archive.org. The Internet Archive is providing free hosting, but the archival work was done by Archiveteam members.

Comment · 1 year ago

Did not know that such things could be accomplished by registering a new file coding format. Reminds me of https://pypi.org/project/goto-statement/

Comment · 1 year ago

By chance, do you happen to know if the Mindstorms NXT (the old one, before EV3) software was based on the same toolkit? I always wondered what UI framework it used, it had an unusual look.