Taylor Allred

Software Engineer @ Adobe | MS CS | Programming language explorer

[Taylor Allred @TaylorAllred8]

@0xglitchbyte It’s really not hard to fork a repo, do whatever the heck you want, work out the kinks, and see if you’ve made something genuinely better rather than mess around on the main repo. Somehow we all forgot that.

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@LiquidHbox Everyone loves mid/low tiers until they’ve spent a couple dozen hours on unranked.

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@0xglitchbyte That sounds sick. Do you have an example repo?

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@TheGingerBill Totally fair. I guess a key idea of using Fat Structs is designing them such that all states are technically valid. What I’m curious about is how to sell the idea to those who are unfamiliar.

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@TrisH0x2A In the Rust one, you can make main return a Result and replace your unwraps with ‘?’. It’s cleaner and communicates that main can fail instead of having panic points.

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@TheGingerBill @ThePrimeagen @TheGingerBill Is there any performance benefit to private functions in Odin? Like how static functions in C are often inlined at compile time and never seen by the linker?

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@_winter_wonders Python is most popular with non-expert programmers (people who need programming to perform at a different kind of job). These people don't usually have anything else to compare it to.

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@nicbarkeragain X desperately needs a setting to turn off replies. I genuinely do not care about 90% of replies, I follow people for their well-formed, publicly offered thoughts.

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@stewartlynch8 Good design is when you keep taking away things until you cannot take away any more.

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@rfleury I don’t mind the rewrite or the choice of language or the use of AI. I think it was extremely reckless to merge to main so quickly without a proper trial period. A fork that users could opt into would have been more responsible.

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@0xglitchbyte I don’t use Rust because it’s popular or because it’s memory safe. I use it because I like it.

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@ThePrimeagen If you’re going to generate slop, I’d prefer it to be Rust.

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@nicbarkeragain What do you think about WebGPU. Seems like they tried to make an easy API for web folks.

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@0xglitchbyte Tbf, coming at C++ with the perspective of the other three is very powerful.

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@JustinPBarnett I go to work and “take it easy” some days.

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@TheGingerBill Seeing as Odin is in a very different lane, which parts of Clojure (or Rich Hickey’s ideas) do you admire?

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@TheGingerBill I just define FP as pure functions and immutable data and the rest is optional toppings.

[pikuma.com @pikuma]

A Programmer's Loss of Identity:
🔗https://t.co/5wzIwNleXH

“I don't belong anymore. The group I identified with valued learning. For the first time in my life, I'm suddenly wary of meeting other 'computer programmers'. There's a decent chance we won’t have much in common.”

[Taylor Allred @TaylorAllred8]

@josevalim I’m looking forward to the actually useful products that rise from the ashes after the pop.