Comments by "Fingers" (@digitalspecter) on "Developer Voices" channel.

  1. I think you're getting a lot of flak because of wording. As someone with diagnosed, debilitating ADHD, I think it has not served us well that people who have got conditioned (hectic life / phone / short form content) to have some similar symptoms self-identify as ADHD.. Those people need help too but it's different. My condition is neurological, I can (and have) learn some skills to cope with it but I will never be cured. There have been times when I've tried to engage with something I need to do (and even something I want to do)... I've tried and tried for hours at a time, for many days.. and my brain simply refuses to engage with it.. trying to explain that to other people is almost as frustrating as the inability itself. And that is only one the nasty things that comes with ADHD.
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  2. Ahh, Hare-brained Scheme sent me 😆 (it would probably be a cool project too!)
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  3. Haircut looks good (also the green polish), longer hair has that wizardy-vibe though :D depends on what you're going for :D
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  4. Both are valid idioms. Run the gauntlet in this case was to communicate the inherent massive difficulty of doing what was described... to me it was completely understandable.
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  5. I think Melange is the compiler that compiles Ocaml/Reason to Javascript and Rescript (which has diverged from Ocaml/Reason syntax/semantics) has its own compiler.
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  6. A compiler that's able to infer them makes it pretty easy for an LSP -client to add them. I use that in Purescript. I write a function without type hints and then I use a code action to insert the inferred types on the function level (it helps that the LSP warns about missing top level types).
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  7. Julia is missing the actual static typing and low level stuff though..
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  8. I wish a project like Guile Emacs or something similar finally succeeds and makes the scripting language faster and enables proper multi threading etc. I also wish that neovim (or some successor) brings deeper customization and introspection to it.. I use and love multiple editors like emacs, neovim, helix .. but none of them manages to be the holy grail so far... EDIT: I found an editor called Lem that really should get more exposure =)
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  9. Well, we have multiple solutions for that (haskell's monads/do-notation, odin's contexts, F#'s computation expressions etc)
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  10. I fear this will be another of those "open source" projects that get ruined by the company trying to squeeze money out of it.. they're too numerous these days not to take that into consideration. It's a very interesting language but I'll wait at least a few years to see how free and open it is then..
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