ryanmccullagh

what's the difference between this and valgrind?

Does QEMU emulate the CPU on macOS?

Netflix has higher quality movies these days. I was happy about that, especially after the small price increase.

You just have to learn marketing!

I can honestly say that I never made this association, and it never crossed my mind once. Now that you mentioned it, I can see it. I just always say "analang" like golang

I thought that the mark-sweep isn't even necessary, if you don't have cycles. Reference counting can be a sufficient GC strategy but when cycles are introduced, I think that's the problem that mark-sweep solves.

That's awesome. Which papers do you find the most useful?

PHP was a reference for me in terms of the parser generator because php-src is implemented with Flex and Bison.

However, come to think of it, it's more close to Python and C then it is PHP.

Well, I'm happy that you found it useful. If you ever want to chat, or have questions, my email is my profile.

I intend to update the README soon.

Hey, so my apologies, but the README is inaccurate, unfortunately. Modules were removed in a commit, but they were working, they just weren't perfect. I plan to bring that commit back [0]

[0] https://github.com/analang/ana/commit/a2a62301388ae1843c60f2... [0] https://github.com/analang/ana/commit/a361c4498c0f44c4d28f4f...

Thanks! For the negative comments, I'm proud to say that I don't care. I've had bosses even ask me what the point of this is when I've shared it. Some perhaps don't understand that you can do things for the sake of doing it.

Overall the most difficult things to understand were:

- How context-free grammars are parsed, and how they're defined. I'm still not an expert, but I can say that I can write a recursive parser by hand. I wrote my own JSON parser based on my understanding [0]

- Garbage collection. I think most GC's are based on the mark-sweep algorithm. Perhaps even Java's most advanced algorithms are a version of mark-sweep. Mark-sweep is so simple, that it took me a _long_ time to understand it. Reference counting and mark-sweep go together.

[0] https://github.com/rmccullagh/libjsonparser

I can answer this. The biggest insight I've gained from going deep into language implementation is that primitive and fundamental concepts do not go away even if things are abstracted by high level features in high-level languages. For example, loops, jumps, will find themselves underlying in any language implementation regardless of the languages abstractions.

Hello!

I get asked this question a lot. My goal for this project is not to convince you to use it. This new language does _nothing_ that you couldn't find in other languages today. This project won't take over the world, and many people ask me what the point of it is. It's purely a project stemmed from curiosity with absolutely no capitalistic motives. I did it based on my years of self-directed research studying many incredible programming languages, and this is what I have to show for my research.

My motivation for this was to learn how to build a programming language with a grammar, virtual machine, and garbage collector. It's a hobby project, not intended to be used for business.

> In practical terms, getting payments right in the enterprise means things like having a direct relationship with your customer

What does this mean exactly?

Wrong. You get ads if you pay for YouTube tv.

Things are modified in practice. You need to read the kernel source code, and things like MySQL and Postgres. File systems are all about btrees.

Lowes.com has the word jankines I've ever used.

.net core is actually a nice development stack. You don't even need to use Windows to host it.

Sugar is a drug. Have you ever reflected on sugar cravings? It's actually as addicting as many scheduled drugs. But it's in EVERYTHING!

Most things have added sugar in them.

iMessage is the best SMS application. Nothing compares. If you haven an iPhone, the native integrations with everything is incomparable to anything like Messenger, etc.

Places like MailGun that don't support any type of authentication. Stripe and GitHub do it well.

the c# code is looking a lot like C with the goto’s. Great to see this style in c#.

And why can't you ever 'close' Finder? One can only hide it.

Excel is the secret calculator app that you’ve been dreaming about.

By "caving" to governments, it seems like Apple and Google are trying to prevent new regulations from being implemented that would harm their businesses. Think about that for a second. Google is huge. Billions of dollars are at a stake for not only them, but their shareholders.

If Google is nice to the government, perhaps their good behavior will be remembered when it comes to voting on new legislation that would harm their business and shareholders.

Would lines of code be a good measure?

So why not pay for it?

  > live in maids to help with chore
  > The employer keeps their passports
  > They get paid around 400-600 SGD (250-400 USD)

That sounds like modern slavery.

Not sure, maybe Dang knows?

Originally posted here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24515906 - but it was flagged.

I find that Python is broken when it comes to namespaces. C# gets this right, and even PHP's namespace system is better than Python's. But Nonetheless, Python is an incredible language with features such as list comprehension, that no other mainstream language besides C# has.