jonathanapp

...the irony of a director at GS lecturing about right/wrong.

Clinked on link solely to find a Philly/Water Ice joke, did not leave empty handed. A+++ would click again

Notes from my KX/kdb experience:

1.) The in-memory DB .exe was around 500 KB. Imagine that.

2.) The Q language syntax, while consistent, is fairly arcane and throwback to decades past.

3.) The documentation and driver support is abysmal.

4.) It's supposedly extremely fast, but I can't help but wonder if this is a lot of successful PR and hype (like hedge fund bosses insisting on Oracle because it's the only db that 'scales')

I became familiar with ReviewBrah a couple weeks ago when browsing broadcasts on my shortwave radio and found his radio show. He sounded like an old-timey broadcaster and I imagined him to be a Jewish gentlemen and in his 50s.

I was recently wading through Loopback's voluminous docs and gobs and gobs of auto-generated code, trying to figure out how to make a highly customized and flexible REST API that allows things like this:

GET /api/crazy/long/path/that/goes/on/forever

It's a cinch in Hapi. Hapi is extremely flexible, minimal yet powerful, and a joy to use. Big fan!

Exactly. I've been researching Kotlin as a Java replacement at my company and would like to promote it as an all-around, traditional language. In my experience Scala is favored by language nerds (not derogatory!) and their code, while fabulously concise and clever, was largely unreadable outside of their clique and used paradigms that are bizarre to even seasoned developers.