stephen82

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About package manager, I don't think it has one yet (at least officially that I know of), but feel free to join discord [1] and ask the core developers about it.

[1] https://discord.gg/7aaGeG7

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

> PS: If I would implemented it, I would deviate a bit from Lua and replace local with let. It's highly subjective but I think it would make code "prettier"(whatever that means)

The idea behind it is to have the lowest syntax barrier possible for Lua developers so they can migrate from Lua to Nelua without a sweat.

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Well, Eduardo has also created this https://github.com/edubart/nelua-decl

Plus, whatever C library you may have used thus far, you can use it with Nelua as well without a fuss [1].

https://nelua.io/overview/#c-interoperability

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

A discussion about GC and memory management can be found here https://github.com/edubart/nelua-lang/discussions/70

Maybe it can answer to some parts of your reasoning? :/

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

You are free to manage memory yourself, if that is what you mean [1].

[1] https://nelua.io/overview/#memory-management

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

There you go https://github.com/AnthonyCalandra/modern-cpp-features

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Can LibGUI be used independently from SerenityOS, much like we do with wxWidgets and Qt?

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Seems like you fell for it https://www.reddit.com/r/wallstreetbets/comments/oci3qd/week...

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

The problem with move semantics is that people don't understand its fallback mechanism, - (that is if it can't move an object and there is not restriction mechanism in a constructor) - it will be used as a copy constructor which is expensive.

I will advice you to read Nicolai Josuttis' " C++ Move Semantics - The Complete Guide" [1] which describes in great detail all the tips and tricks around move semantics.

P.S.: For any C++ developer out there, in my humble opinion anything written by Nicolai Josuttis is a must-read!

[1] http://www.cppmove.com/

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

> We expect that IP and AI will be an interesting policy discussion around the world in the coming years, and we're eager to participate!

Another question is this: let's hypothesize I work solo on a project; I have decided to enable Copilot and have reached a 50%-50% development with it after a period of time. One day the "hit by a bus" factor takes place; who owns the project after this incident?

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

I honestly don't know what I would have chosen for a different career path, but what I do know is that I would not choose technology or anything that deals with internet connection.

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Your wish might become reality soon https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2021/01/12/improve-type-generi...

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

I based my comment on Jens Gustedt's article [1] about adding a "defer" mechanism in standard C.

Clearly, the C committee works hard on improving the language and they are in the process to standardize important features, such as lambda functions, auto, typeof (like C++'s decltype more or less), and so forth.

In my humble opinion, "defer" can mild the buffer / memory overflow, but of course not permanently remedied it 100%; to me though it's better to have such mechanism than have nothing at all to protect you.

https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-f...

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Would not be cheaper to fix those unsafe languages, such as C, and offer safe mechanisms that could be used upon need?

Why spend thousands, if not millions of dollars, on rewriting existing codebases when they could help fixing the existing toolset and make it safer?

I don't get it.

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Personally I prefer SQLiteStudio [1] as it is closer to SQLite Expert Professional [2] that I used to use at work.

    [1] https://github.com/pawelsalawa/sqlitestudio
    [2] http://www.sqliteexpert.com/

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

*to ME...ugh, all these typos lately /facepalm...

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

To be personally Fabrice Bellard is the Leonardo da Vinci of technology with specialization in C.

This guy knows how to push the language's limits and he is the main reason I switched back to C for good.

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Very nice!

I would suggest to add them to https://github.com/EbookFoundation/free-programming-books as well.

You will drive an incredible amount of traffic to your website this way.

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

I think "defer" is coming [1], along with other goodies that simplified the life of C++ developers, but time will tell.

I really hope they approve the following:

    * auto
    * constexpr
    * lambda function
    * __typeof__ used as typeof; it behaves like decltype

It would lead to cleaner code without excessive macro magic; only where would be needed.

[1] https://gustedt.wordpress.com/2020/12/14/a-defer-mechanism-f...

stephen82

5 yıl öncediscuss

Even though I'm not a front-end developer, I dealt with WordPress advanced custom development for a certain amount of time to realize web development - as we currently know it - is not worth it...like *at all*!

As an OCD person I cannot count the number of times I got panic attacks for realizing how many tests I needed to go through to test:

    * have I checked my PHP code, packages, and settings? Are they all good?
    * is Composer and my various packages updated?
    * what about npm and yarn packages? are they updated?
    * wait...do I need worry about CSS as well now, to look for extra security measurements? WHY?! Oh yeah, CSS injection [1] /facepalm

You cannot imagine how many times I jumped out of bed to run to my computer to double-check a security measurement on an infrastructure I thought I did not secure only to find out I already did an extra step that double-secured it...

It's not worth it anymore.

It's SO FREAKING STRESSFUL!

I decided to stop dealing with web development as a whole and I'm playing with C and C++ now, like the good ol' days.

I can't do multiple things at once.

I live and breathe the UNIX philosophy: Do one thing and do it well.

[1] https://www.netsparker.com/blog/web-security/private-data-st...

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