[-] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

2007 - Rob Pike and Ken Thompson think it would be really cool if C was more like Java, and that it would be even more cool if it used the Pascal-style "x := 5" syntax. They lock themselves in a dark room over the winter and create Go. People criticize it for not being more like Rust, despite Rust not having been invented yet.

2009 - After an airplane crash leaves Graydon Hoare stranded in the middle of the Arabian desert, a mysterious camel appears and saves his life. He creates Rust, and adds obtuse syntax and a merciless compiler to mimic the feeling of being stranded in the desert. Masochists worldwide rejoice.

2012 - Anders Hejlsberg discovers some mushrooms growing from the base of his bathtub. After consuming them, he has a revelation that C# needs more Javascript. He invents Typescript. Typescript is a relatively verbose, garbage collected, class based, statically typed, single dispatch, object oriented language with single implementation inheritance and multiple interface inheritance. Microsoft loudly heralds Typescript's novelty.

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

Extra fun fact for comment reading friends: This post is the origin of the meme "Monads are just monoids in the category of endofunctors. What's the problem?" Source

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An absolute classic. One of my favourite parts:

1987 - Larry Wall falls asleep and hits Larry Wall's forehead on the keyboard. Upon waking Larry Wall decides that the string of characters on Larry Wall's monitor isn't random but an example program in a programming language that God wants His prophet, Larry Wall, to design. Perl is born.

[-] [email protected] -1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Hear me out, but I believe that using Rust holds Lemmy back.

Writing Rust code is difficult, and fairly time consuming. It's difficult to get right, and as other commenters have noted, Lemmy code seems to do a lot of things for the "hype factor" (like Websockets). It's difficult to find enough devs as well.

The article about Discord switching to Rust from Go in the top comment is misleading in my opinion. They totally rearchitected their service while rewriting it, so it's an apples to oranges comparision.

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[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Caddy is great, I've been using it for all greenfield projects.

P. S. Have you checked out the Caddy API?

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

You must be a fan of the primeagen

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This is really nice! You might also enjoy: Select Star SQL and SQL Murder Mystery

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An insightful article about the internals of nginx, and how it works.

yourstruly

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