This is not helping me in the market but what I love doing the most is computer language engineering. I'm learning how to write an #LSP right now to support my born language in neovim. I also discovered #LLVM recently. It lets you compile to any target from a generic ASM. It made me realize something. The first languages where all compiled. Then, we got the interpreted languages. But recently, the new languages are all compiled again! Think of #rust, #go, #zig, #elixir. I wonder if it's because we perfected the tooling in a way that maintaining a compiled language is not that hard anymore. Go is a weird one. It has a garbage collector. Yeah! A compiled language with a garbage collector. It means that there is a process that is embedded in the executable to just do garbage collection. We might now have a real reason anymore to interpret.
Roland
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- #Python is written in C
- #Perl is written in C
- #Ruby is written in C
- #PHP is written in C
- #JavaScript engines started in C, now mostly in C++
- #Go was first in C, now written in Go itself
- #C++ compilers are written in C++
- #Swift is built with C++ and Swift (on LLVM in C++)
- #C# runs on .NET, built in C++/C#
- #JVM (HotSpot) is written in C++Yet, people still doubt the necessity of learning C!
Michael Dexter
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Sylve is a new and very promising bhyve and jail manager for FreeBSD - coming with clustering support and a pretty nice and modern web ui which is alike the #Proxmox one. I had a closer look at it... And I'm amazed!
#sylve #freebsd #jail #jails #bhyve #vm #virtualization #manager #ipv6 #zfs #opensource #runbsd #blog #devops #go #golang #cluster #freebsdcluster #bhyvecluster
https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/
- #Python is written in C
- #Perl is written in C
- #Ruby is written in C
- #PHP is written in C
- #JavaScript engines started in C, now mostly in C++
- #Go was first in C, now written in Go itself
- #C++ compilers are written in C++
- #Swift is built with C++ and Swift (on LLVM in C++)
- #C# runs on .NET, built in C++/C#
- #JVM (HotSpot) is written in C++Yet, people still doubt the necessity of learning C!
Sylve is a new and very promising bhyve and jail manager for FreeBSD - coming with clustering support and a pretty nice and modern web ui which is alike the #Proxmox one. I had a closer look at it... And I'm amazed!
#sylve #freebsd #jail #jails #bhyve #vm #virtualization #manager #ipv6 #zfs #opensource #runbsd #blog #devops #go #golang #cluster #freebsdcluster #bhyvecluster
https://gyptazy.com/blog/sylve-a-proxmox-alike-webui-for-bhyve-on-freebsd/
[[sciop]] looks very interesting, thank you @jonny !
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For the past couple of days I've been hard at work writing documentation in the attempt to decrease the friction for developers that try #GoActivityPub for their applications.
I am of a mind to pay some #Go developers in the near future to do a weekend's worth of programming into trying to use the library in projects, so we can iron out potential issues with the use of the library itself and the documentation.
Anyone interested?
For the past couple of days I've been hard at work writing documentation in the attempt to decrease the friction for developers that try #GoActivityPub for their applications.
I am of a mind to pay some #Go developers in the near future to do a weekend's worth of programming into trying to use the library in projects, so we can iron out potential issues with the use of the library itself and the documentation.
Anyone interested?
I'm really puzzled at some #GoLang "conventions":
https://github.com/mholt/archives/issues/3#issuecomment-3212123684
In this issue, a smaller-than-produced-value type is exposed on a factory API: this would make sense if coding defensively, to reduce the API surface, but not here, IMO.
Forcing consumers to do runtime upcasting because of a convention feels wrong, but I'm perhaps missing part of the picture somewhere.
To me, making something "fail at compile time, when wrong" is a massive value proposition for a compiled language.
Japan's oldest professional player of the board game go retired at age 98 after saying she can no longer handle "six hours without a break." https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/08/20/japan/japans-oldest-go-player-retires/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #boardgames #kazukosugiuchi #go
Federico Mena Quintero
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Just got GTK #GObject subclassing to work in #Go thanks to some new bindings by https://github.com/jwijenbergh 👀
Just got GTK #GObject subclassing to work in #Go thanks to some new bindings by https://github.com/jwijenbergh 👀
I prefer #go over #kotlin_native
1. better packages
2. 20% less code needed
3. better build system (go build). Gradle is too big.
4. lends itself well to fast-paced development
Not sure about #rust.
It just feels like Rust is too complicated for ordinary people like me.
Rust likes to tag itself as a security-driven language. I don't see that Go does any worse here.
When it comes to performance, the most important thing is to be faster than Python ;)
What #libre#IDE (integrated development environment for programming code) would y'all want to coalesce around using, supporting, and developing? Asking especially for coding websites and applications with #PHP, #JavaScript, #CSS, and #HTML but #Python, #Elixir, #Rust, and #Go would all be great for us @agaric too.
@graves501 For me Rust is like nextgen C++ and Go is like nextgen userspace C. I do a lot of #Go #golang and #Cpp (because I have to) and while I tried #Rust I rather port things I can from C++ to Go because I hardly see any use of all that C++ “what if” abstraction anymore. Rather than rewriting 1:1 I enjoy shrinking and reducing them to simplicity. I quite enjoy Go and understand other folks enjoy Rust. It is nice we have choice and languages evolve.
Today I realized #Go and #Rust both have panics instead of exceptions and both originate from the second half of the 2000s.
These facts are now mentioned in https://gato-lang.dev/
If you have experience with Go or Rust, I'm interested in your thoughts on the lack of exceptions in these languages. It looks to me like an attempt to simplify things that eventually backfired, as evidenced for example by https://www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/dealing-with-out-of-memory-conditions-in-rust/
｢ Go is the most hated programming language. Compared to other languages, it provides 80% of utility with 20% of complexity. The hate comes from people who want 81% of utility, or 85% or 97% ｣
https://blog.kowalczyk.info/article/d-2025-06-26/go-is-8020-language.html
Hey fedi-sloths 🦥, is there any solution for importing historical posts into @gotosocial@superseriousbusiness.org that supports importing posts with @ mentions?
Slurp by @vyr@princess.industries is an amazing tool that has made a number of great anti-spam and anti-harassment decisions on this. But I’m still struggling with my inability to import a large number of my old photo posts containing @ mentions to @kamera@fedi.haugenh.us. While I’ve submitted Issue #22 I am not qualified to submit a PR on this myself.