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Metago: Write templates that write go

metago.dev

2 pointsby crowdyriver5 dni temu1 comments

Why programmatic tool calling is awesome

guillemus.com

1 pointsby crowdyriver7 miesięcy temu0 comments

Ask HN: Wouldn't it be much easier if you compress all env vars into one?

2 pointsby crowdyriver9 miesięcy temu1 comments

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5 dni temudiscuss

python is terrible for embedding, starlark is the way to go. Very easy to embed.

5 dni temudiscuss

It occurred to me a few weeks ago why programming languages don't just try add metaprogramming capabilities with comments, without modifying the original compiler. So I went ahead and experimented how would it look like in golang.

So far so good! It's basically go templates that take in any package level go symbol and write code into a meta.go file.

You can do the same with the go/ast package, but metago makes it very easy to add your own custom transformations. No build tags, just write .metago templates, annotate structs, and run metago.

So far I've managed to make stringer, enums, mocks and even an efficient json serde template with metago. As an experiment, there's also a typesafe active record like orm in the repo. So you can do a lot with it!

16 dni temudiscuss

I think people are overfocusing on the wrong thing.

Bun is slop. Let's not pretend it is not. It went from 600k lines of zig to almost a million of rust, for a wrapper around a js engine. It might be useful slop, but it is still slop.

It's understandable to have mixed feelings about bun as the creator of the language.

You spend 10 years of your time making a language, and one of the most prominent projects that uses it does it in a nasty and sloppy way. You try to help, but your advice gets ignored.

You make a whole language about improving software quality, only to be associated with a project that doesn't care about it.

For once I do appreciate that somebody is willing to have the guts to say what they think. The bun rust rewrite article said no words about the tradeoffs of moving to Rust (compilation times?), and I agree with the false dichotomy presented. How do we know that most bun bugs were not created because of slop / AI usage / stubbornness?

4 miesiące temudiscuss

tbh I'd rather have this behaviour, defer should've been lexically scoped from the beginning.

7 miesięcy temudiscuss

You already have this problem whenever you are using a library in any programming language. Unless you are extremely strict, vendor it and read line by line what the library does, you are just trusting that the code that you are using works.

And nothing is stopping the AI from making the unreadable mess more readable in later iterations. It can make it pass the spec first and make it cleaner later. Just like we do!

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

While I like the modern feel of shadcn/ui and derivatives, I still think that daisyui is much easier to use.

You really just paste these 2 lines in your html and that's it:

  <link href="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/daisyui@5" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
  <script src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@tailwindcss/browser@4" />

it's a bit more than 100kb of js, but for prototyping it is very nice.

I wish more UI libraries where in the same style. You can always optimize the bundle later.

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

Did you check the co2 levels on your office? that could be one reason.

w zeszłym rokudiscuss

Unrelated, but PGroonga reads funny in Argentinian. Better than gimp though

2 lata temudiscuss

Genuine question, more for soloentrepreneurs, but what if instead of adding ads from other companies, the perplexity company did other paid products?

Then they could put a few non disruptive ads for those into their main free product, and they would make much more sense.

I want to apply this strategy into my (yet non existent) future products.

2 lata temudiscuss

http streaming is even more underrated.

2 lata temudiscuss

not for non latin american speakers.

2 lata temudiscuss

oh god

2 lata temudiscuss

nice and everything, but it still has plenty of performance issues and crashes with the tsserver. Using solid start because of that, tooling is not there yet.

2 lata temudiscuss

It's even worse, you still need node to run this thing, so you don't avoid the node dependency.

2 lata temudiscuss

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2 lata temudiscuss

You can always use exhaustruct https://github.com/GaijinEntertainment/go-exhaustruct

to enforce all fields initialized.

If you care, the linter is there, so this is more of a skill issue.

2 lata temudiscuss

There's lots of comments here about how stupid is to parse html using llms.

Have you ever had to scrape multiple sites with variadic html?

2 lata temudiscuss

I am surprised no one is doing an llm code linter.

2 lata temudiscuss

If we are living in a simulation, where does the simulation live in?

2 lata temudiscuss

every feature that makes a language more complicated will eventually hit you. It might make the typescript compiler slower, harder to refactor, your lsp might also get slower, etc...