sitta

há 5 mesesdiscuss

Great article!

Will the new metric be exposed in JFR recordings as well?

há 8 mesesdiscuss

Perhaps also of interest is the storage format that Fedora 6/7 uses.

https://ocfl.io/

ano passadodiscuss

I recently wrote an extremely basic Rust web service using Axum. It had 10 direct dependencies for a total of 121 resolved dependencies. I later rewrote the service in Java using Jetty. It had 3 direct dependencies for a total of 7 resolved dependencies. Absolutely nuts.

sitta

há 2 anosdiscuss

Yeah, currently you have to be really careful about what you do in virtual threads. However, they are actively working on a solution to the issue with synchronized blocks. Once that's been solved, they should be a lot easier to use. Unfortunately, many of us will be stuck on 21 for some time now, and will need to continue to worry about synchronized blocks.

sitta

há 2 anosdiscuss

The article makes it sound like the feature set has been finalized, but is that really the case? I'm struggling to find evidence for this, and the official page does not seem to indicate this at all: https://openjdk.org/projects/jdk/23/

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

The comments about this feature are always so tiresome. Please just scroll down and read the "Alternatives" section at the bottom. They're not idiots. They're working within backwards compatibility constraints. They can't just do it like other languages.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

The company I interned at back in '08 had multiple Tichu games going daily over lunch. It's where I learned to love the game. Sadly, they had a hiring freeze when I graduated in '09, and I had to move on. I still play, but I will always look back fondly on those daily games over lunch.

When I do play Tichu these days, it's actually with the designer of Haggis, Sean Ross. He's been putting out a lot of traditionally inspired games over the past few years. He just published a game called Bacon which is a climbing game based on the traditional climbing game Guan Dan (https://www.pagat.com/climbing/guan_dan.html). I'd recommend checking out both games! The hand size in Guan Dan is 27 cards, and that's not even the most in a traditional climbing game!

An updated version of Haggis will also be coming out later this year, and it will support playing up to 6 players. The 4-player partnership version is particularly good. The reprint will also include some updated rules for the 3-player game, which I like a lot too.

(I'd give you some BGG links, but it looks like it's currently down for maintenance.)

That aside, Pagat is truly a gem. One of the best sites on the internet. I have spent hours and hours there learning and trying obscure card games. Thank you, John McLeod.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

Agreed. Obra Dinn is a weird example here as there's nothing else like it.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

>> How do you ship a Java library that uses native code? Python/Node/Ruby worlds know, but OpenJDK ignores the question.

>It doesn't. jmod files and the jmod tool were added in JDK 9 precisely for that (and other things, too).

I have never seen a lib package native dependencies using jmod. It's not even clear to me how this would be done. Everyone I'm familiar with bundles binaries inside the jar. Can you point to an example? I would love to learn a better way of doing this.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

> Having to use streams in order to use map, etc., is noisy. Why weren't these APIs retrofitted to collections?

Sure, methods along the lines of the following could have been added:

  public <R> List<R> map(Function<? super E, ? extends R> mapper) {
      return stream().map(mapper).toList();
  }

Yes, having them would make Java less verbose in the case where you only want to do a single map, filter, whatever operation on a collection, but I'm personally glad that they weren't because they produce extremely inefficient behavior when chained. So, it would add a performance footgun to save ~18 characters.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

It's one thing to say, "very little has been added between Java 8 and Java 21," and something else entirely to say, "newer features are often criticized as not being as good as they could be [to maintain backwards compatibility]."

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

> I actually feel like very little has been added between Java 8 and Java 21.

var, records, sealed types, and pattern matching make a huge difference in how Java is written. A lot has changed since 8.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

I think this perfectly demonstrates my point. Thanks for sharing. Java was perceived as "enterprisey and non-open-source-friendly".

It's also interesting to hear that a Java deployment was thought to be more difficult than a Python deployment. My baised opinion is the exact opposite. Java services are generally incredibly simple to run, especially if you make a fat jar executable.

sitta

há 3 anosdiscuss

My fear is that Java is now only popular in a professional setting, and is no longer of interest in the broader community. This is sad to me because I personally love the features that you all have been delivering in recent releases, and am very excited about the ones coming down the pike.

A few circumstantial examples. If you look at the Matrix SDKs and implementations (https://matrix.org/docs/projects/try-matrix-now/), Java's presence is sorely lacking. The initial server implementation was written in Python of all things and the rewrite in Go. This is baffling as a Java implementation seems like a no-brainer to me.

In addition to working for a variety of corporations, I have also done some work for academic institutions, specifically in the library space. They have a lot of old tools from the 2000-2010ish range that are predominantly in Java. However, now, these institutions are primarily using Python and Javascript, and are even struggling to find Java developers to maintain their old infrastructure.

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

https://www.redhat.com/sysadmin/podman-docker-compose

Podman listens on the docker socket, and the official docker-compose just works

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

When did you last use it? It _does_ support docker compose. Has for a while now actually.

I love it on Linux. The Mac version is not as smooth yet, but, for my use case, still works a hell of a lot better than docker desktop. There is something deeply wrong with docker desktop's networking, and I literally have to restart it almost every time I make a change to one of our services. Not an issue with podman.

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

I really don't like that ActivityPub does not support encryption. I wanted to setup an instance of one of these platforms for friends and family to use, but hated the thought of having to tell them that, by the way I can read all of your messages. I wouldn't, but I hate that that's even possible. So, instead I'm trying to twist Matrix to work more like a social media platform. It's janky, but totally workable, so long as you're not looking for global engagement.

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

A few months ago I started playing with using Matrix as a janky social media replacement. The idea was to setup a space with rooms that I post in. One room might be a public, unencrypted room that anyone can read (ala Twitter/Mastadon/etc), and another might be just for close friends, etc. Then, I just post to them like you would on any other platform.

It's great because it's the only platform like this where you have the ability to encrypt if you want to, but it is of course missing some features. The biggest being the ability to share posts and have a meta feed. There are also smaller annoyances that would not scale well, such as the fact that people cannot make personal room name aliases.

I still totally recommend it.

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

Thank you for the recommendations. I will check them out. To be fair, it's been a couple years since I last looked, and at that time it wasn't that there were _no_ other light themes, but there were very few and they were not nearly as good as Solarized, which I guess is a personal preference. But, I really do appreciate the recommendations, and look forward to trying some new colors.

sitta

há 4 anosdiscuss

It's odd to me that there's essentially no competition to Solarized Light when it comes to light color schemes, and all of the focus is on dark. Personally, I don't like dark themes and find them way harder to read. I love Solarized Light, but I do sometimes wish there were a few more options available for light users.

Funnily enough, I lived next to Ethan for a few years in Seattle, and was not a solarized user prior to meeting him. Thanks Ethan!

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