It wouldn’t be good at it, it would at most be a little patch for non audited code.

In the end it would just be an AI-powered antivirus.

I don’t remember exactly, they were trying to package some dependencies they needed with guix and it was just a big headache.

I’ve seen good devs, helped by the team of guix themselves, fail for weeks and weeks at making it work as intended. That’s not a working software.

Guix is far from being practical for most uses though.

Well from what you’re saying I’d go for something like EndeavourOS.

Based on arch, usable out of the box but without much preinstalled so that you can do your own mix. Manjaro is a bit similar but with more preinstalled (and maybe more bugs from what I read).

Most performance optimisation can be done through improving algorithms and data structures, and knowing well the language you’re using.

I don’t think I’ve encountered any performance issue that wasn’t either:

• Unavoidable because of what I’m doing
• Coming from an inefficient data structure or algorithm
• Coming from a bad use or pitfall of the language.

Of course there are specific cases such as low-power environments and such, but that’s not what most people talk about when they talk about performance.

I also would like to point out my confusion with the obsession towards performance when it’s not needed (such as “is languageA 10% faster than languageB?”) but then everyone putting web technologies everywhere, from games to desktop software. It’s starting to feel like performance is more of a cult than a pragmatic question at this point.

This quote is full of shit though.

France supports pedos and rapists openly so not the brightest example.

Containers are fine but docker is a pain in the ass that lazy people use when they don’t want to provide clean installation/packaging.

How many times have I seen an equivalent of “we use a custom fork of an obsolete version of an unmaintained package, so if you want to compile it yourself good luck because we forgot how we even did it. Alternatively, you can install the docker version”…

“I refused treatment for my cancer based on a YouTube video and I survived!”

Bot or actually stupid spammer?

The guy is a nazi trying to pull off some utterly stupid rethoric of “oh noes the evil trans people are coming to discriminate against us and replace us”.

I’ve never seen something so absurd and would advise the writer to go seek help.

What I’m seeing is a guy who panics because he’s a transphobic piece of shit and is seeing that the world is changing and he won’t be allowed to be discriminatory as much as before. And he’s using the typical crap of “why not sit and talk” that nazis love to use. “Why do you censor my nazi opinions instead of talking about why we should kill black people or not?” would be a similar line.

helloWorld : '{IO, Exception} () 
helloWorld _ = printLine "Hello World"

I wouldn’t call it friendly.

I just use pamac. Almost never have to use pacman directly, except if somehow something broke with pamac, which is rare.

The con of one of then being “is a rootkit”

=> Big corps are the problem

Let’s forget wine and praise valve then I guess.

Defending javascript syntax is not really a valid thing. Even js devs admit it.

Python is an overall robust language that allows you to do basically whatever you want, and does it pretty well. You can even use C extensions if you want to get peak performance.

The two domains that I believe Python cannot easily work with, are IoT where the interpreter would be a bit too cumbersome for a low-power system, and web programming, where it would still underperform Javascript and Webassembly (even though I am guessing that with a better webassembly support of the browsers, it would be possible to reach a rather efficient interpreter in-browser that would at least reach performances similar to javascript, if not better. And even if slower, the better syntax and lack of absurd rules would be a clear advantage on JavaScript).

“Use lua if you want a language that allows you to code in a crappy way” is a good argument