noneucat's comments

On: Slick Wraps Data Breach

[noneucat]

Should probably be merged with: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22384754

On: Moving to GitLab

[noneucat]

I don't recall GHC development ever being on GitHub? Most I can find is a mirror at https://github.com/ghc/ghc.

edit: Title has been changed.

[sahin → noneucat]

thx, fixed the title

On: Show HN: Trigonoparty – JavaScript trigonometry vi...

[noneucat]

This was very enlightening for me, thank you!

[ramesaliyev → noneucat]

Really glad to hear that!

On: The PHP Singularity (2012)

[noneucat]

Make me wonder...

Is there anything like TypeScript or MoonScript for PHP? A source-to-source language that tries to mitigate the quirks and issues with the target language.

[k_sze → noneucat]

Just pick a better language (e.g. Python/Ruby/Groovy/C#). Period. And JavaScript was never as horrible as PHP anyway, in my opinion.

The thing is, you have more control over what language you can run on the server-side, whereas all your web browser clients run JavaScript. So it made sense to have a transpiler targeting JavaScript.

[noneucat → k_sze]

I wasn't trying to credit the language. Just curious about the state of the ecosystem.

I had the displeasure of PHP being the first "programming language" I came across. Most of my knowledge was gleaned from w3schools and various web pages scattered around the web. I recall doing a lot of Googling while trying to figure out edge cases and such.

[vorg → k_sze]

But mostly the language picked for a system is a well-used legacy language (e.g. Java / C / Befunge / Cobol ) chosen by a business manager.

On: An EPYC NixOS Build Farm

[noneucat]

The tests are written in Perl and are invoked by Nix's build tools. You can skim the API at https://nixos.org/nixos/manual/#sec-nixos-tests

In this case, the test makes use of both xdotool and Nix's own testing library.