Ambika

lesbian ; functional programming enthusiast ; leftist | she/her | 21

[Ambika @rosalogia]

Hi! I'm Ambika and I develop software.
• Professional OCaml developer
• I love working on software that will be built upon by other developers
• In addition to OCaml, I enjoy writing F#, Rust, and occasionally Haskell
https://t.co/0lDTmiCSnR

[Ambika @rosalogia]

Yes of course can't put a price on etc. but even supposing one could, 1.8k is truly preposterous and hateful

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Delta Airlines offered a woman $1,800 after they lost her dog at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, according to the New York Post.

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@sabine_s_ You should put object oriented programming 100m below the iceberg

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@yawaramin Has been happening a lot more to me recently as well

[Ambika @rosalogia]

3. Should every major open source project have a discord, slack, or some sort of IM community space for quick questions about architecture and the like?

Obviously a major benefit of the workplace is that you can expect a level of quality from your coworkers, but still?

[Ambika @rosalogia]

My onboarding at AWS/EC2 would've taken a LOT longer if I didn't have people available to me who I could

1. Ask for a rundown of the packages we own, what they do and where changes will probably go
2. Ask for pointers to old commits and code reviews that add new functionality

[Ambika @rosalogia]

This makes me wonder

1. Could the aforementioned "rundown" be materialized into documentation for e.g. open source projects? Would that lower the contribution barrier?
2. Would it be useful to maintain a document with links to old PRs labelled by what kind of change they make?

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@leostera I suppose that is a fair thing to want

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@leostera Are you unhappy with lwt/async situation?

[Ambika @rosalogia]

It's Thursday which means it's Friday which means I get to study a lot of Chinese

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@mycoliza I need to finish reading some books

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@michael_timbs If you like rust but want more of the resource management abstracted away from you, OCaml is basically The language you're looking for

[Ambika @rosalogia]

I have a bad habit of quoting people I could reply to because I spend most of my time on a private account

[Ambika @rosalogia]

Meh, eventually you will want <$> and <*> and realize you never needed $, it just exists to fill the logical gap left by the other two lol

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

I used to teach Haskell by explaining the difference between the $ and . operators.

It took me several years to learn that the correct way to teach Haskell is to never mention $ at all 🙅‍♀️

These two operators just confuse the hell out of people.

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@ShriramKMurthi Right 😭😭😭

[Ambika @rosalogia]

Static typing is like turning on the lights

[Dmitrii Kovanikov @ChShersh]

Lots of folks criticise this analogy of static vs. dynamic typing.

I was looking for a real-world analogy but haven't found a better one.

I guess it's time to ask tech Twitter for help!
What would be a great analogy?

[Ambika @rosalogia]

Or for those people making electric freight trains in rust that's also cool

[Ambika @rosalogia]

I would like to work for a company whose product is DX related, and whose customers are developers and other tech companies

[Ambika @rosalogia]

@paul_snively One year since I last bothered trying to find out😄 I've been away from the community for a while, I noticed more commotion recently and wondered if this might have been something that's changed in my absence

[Ambika @rosalogia]

So nearly 1 year later, are any new US companies using OCaml or is it still basically just Jane Street, Meta, and a team or two at Bloomberg?