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branneman

52 karma · joined February 25, 2016

internet geek. software craftsman/architect/manager. rotterdam. espresso. whisky. techno. http://bran.name/
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branneman··on A cross-platform multi-target dotfiles manager written in Rust
Why no MacOS support if you claim cross-platform? That's not honest.
branneman··on Switch to Gender Neutral Terms
April Fools I guess, considering the actual commit content:

- many -> persony

- helps -> theylps

- here -> theyre

- historical -> theirstorical

branneman··on There is no such thing as a “glibc based alpine image”
Yes. Exactly this.
branneman··on Show HN: Lisp implementation in modern Java, Go, C#, TypeScript, Python
Agreed. But why choose if it's easy to add an idiomatic pure-JavaScript/EcmaScript 2021 implementation to compare with as well?
branneman··on Apple, Mozilla, Google, Microsoft form group to standardize browser plug-ins
Now find some sources to cite with that timeline, and create a wikipedia article from it!
branneman··on Compensate for Rockchip calendar deviation on November 31st (2015)
Well, that is the point of software, to change quicker and cheaper.
branneman··on Bomberjam – Bot writing programming challenge
Discussion on Reddit: https://reddit.com/r/javascript/comments/n2kliz/can_you_beat...
branneman··on Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.
... but racket basically exists to create parsers and languages. It happens to also be a general programming language. But so is JS nowadays with Node.
branneman··on Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.
In that case, way I ask why you are not a Racket user? Sounds like it'll save you a ton of time and keep your implementations high level.
branneman··on Ohm – A library and language for building parsers, interpreters, compilers, etc.
When should one use Ohm over Racket?
branneman··on Valve's Proton Has Enabled 7000 Windows Games on Linux
How is Proton a technology/library/sorftware? I got the impression it's just a preconfigured Wine, but not an actual implementation. Sorry if I'm misinformed.

And _if_ that's true, I'm sad about the credits not going to the Wine team.

branneman··on Ask HN: What language would you code if you didn't need to make money?
Racket
branneman··on Ask HN: What language would you code if you didn't need to make money?
Have you seen & tried Racket?
branneman··on Argus Eyes – A lightweight CLI tool for visual regression testing
See also: http://www.slideshare.net/branneman/argus-eyes