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From the docs "At scale, MERGE may introduce complicated concurrency issues or require advanced troubleshooting. As such, plan to thoroughly test any MERGE statement before deploying to production."
I dont know if its better in PQSQL , but they took their time, so maybe it is
"sell me F# meme", what is that, F# is one of my favorite languages, I like a lot OCaml and languages similar to it
and if i may guess, whatever you are building, this is not a new company and not a new product, probably something that started between 2000-2005 if not even before
1. It have no edge, its not the best system language, and far from a good application language (mainly because of the eco system)
2. Fragile community, low number of user and the community forum is toxic frequently
3. It doesnt have strong leadership, D doesnt have a good roadmap, and constantly changing vision
4. Its a big language, and considering the drawbacks, its too big to have such critical drawbacks
I cant really think of any solid reason, why anyone would invest in D, except if they are already knee deep into it for some historical reasons
D is not a horrible language, but today there are so many better choices, and the language is too big, to risk investing in it
https://www.humblebundle.com/books/elixir-programming-pragma...
19 books for around 18 us dollars (at the time of this comment it had 9 days left)
1. better database support, also need to support BI Cubes likes MS SSAS
2. fix scoping rules
I created a small feature request on github, where I suggest a fix for their scoping (inspired a lot by perl), and I would like to take this opportunity to promote my suggestion, I think its a good one, that will make Julia nicer
But for Clojure, this doesn't add up, Clojure is either hosted on the JVM or Javascript, how can you not find the library you need on one or the other ?
Maybe a before and after, but one that focus on expressiveness, what you were not able to say/express in OCaml before, that is now* possible
not just speed or performance
*s/not/now
https://windev.com/storage/en_US/ebook/newfeatures/3/
RAD is a strange market though, tools are real, and customers make real business apps with it
The marketing is usually very .. unusual
anyway, a while ago, firefox starting crashing on me like crazy
and tried to get support from there https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/
but after a while i just gave up, they need to setup a discourse forum or something, some place more interactive
but they are already kind of there, they own NetSuite which is the number 1 cloud ERP
they also own Oracle ERP which is another top 5 cloud ERP
they own peoplesoft/jd edwards and all their clients
they next to SAP, own the enterprise apps market and unlike SAP, they seem to be serious about competing with AWS ans Azure, Oracle OCI, see to get niece reviews
So how long will it take for Oracle to be irrelevant, if OCI and NetSuite continue to move in the right directions, for as long as people have money
It is co authored by Yaron Minsky, I think Yaron plays a big role in making OCaml relevant
I think OCaml would have been a far less popular language, had Yaron chosen another language for jane street
Dart is the language google is in a way selling, as the dev language for their new mobile platform flutter
Go, just happened, most available online material suggest that Go did really just happen
Rob pike have his taste, and build Go, in my opinion in the spirit of C, a pragmatic rather than theoretic effort
Go success, I think was not something that google really pushed for, it just happened because it seem many developer seem to prefer to use simpler languages, and deal with complexity "of using" a language, rather than learn a complex language and deal with the complexity "of learning" a language, developers are more engineers and craftsmen, rather than scientist
F# - ML + .Net
Clojure - Java + jvm + lisp
Rust/OCaml - System Programming
Both F# and Clojure give you access to probably the two biggest ecosystems, but they are obviously put them at opposite ends of the programming paradigms spectrum, but this makes learning both less redundant
Rust and OCaml, are probably what you should use if you want a compiled system language
Honorable mention PureScript, because haskell + Javascript (but F# will take you close and is more practical)
you will probably never use them, except in rare cases for example
return employee sales by products, show 0 if no sales in a normal db, you will only have records for products with sales above 0
you will need a cross join to join every employee with all products even those with no sales
and full outer join will not work, because it will only return products with some sales for at least one employee
only a cross join will return all products
i will do this in two steps 1 cross join emp and product left join the result from 1 to product sales replace nulls with 0
rare case, stupid case too
cubes whether tabular (columnar database) or multidimensional provide a language mdx or dax, that basically allows parametric measures (or queries)
which is essential in data analysis
sql for now, doesnt allow parametric functions or queries in the same way dax or mdx does
but comments above are suggesting that because of LSP (Language server protocols) plugins can be portable now, from one editor to another
i thought each editor needed its own plugin, and VS Code always seem to have the main plugin, didnt really come across plugins that run across multiple editor, but then i was not really checking this, next time i will check it
Editors like Vim, Emacs or VSCode are all about the plugins
I use emacs for org mode And VSCode for everything else, because simply most proramming languages have their main plugins on VSCode
The only way you can move from VSCode to neovim is, if you dont care about the plugins
Why would you VSCode if not for the plugins
It is normal for any large organization to be interested and use many language
But is microsoft really getting invested and interest in Rust? Will the start using Rust for some of their major products Or is this just business as usual
is this still the case
And since that day, not one looked at Fossil the same way, at least not the same way they looked at git
https://www.mail-archive.com/fossil-users@lists.fossil-scm.o...
I can't tell for sure how much of impact this had on fossil's adoption, its hard to beat git no matter how good you are, but I think it was a bit hit
Why are you refusing to blame the product owner
D is not a good language, it really is not, it doesn't offer any compelling advantage to justify accepting its flaw
Or simply put, its a bad product A bad product doesnt have to be trash, just enough bad design issue to make it bad I would strongly recommend new developers not to touch it there are far better option
Say it as it is, its simple, its the truth
Its functional, people use it, but its bad C++ is also bad, but its so overwhelmingly popular that you might want to learn it D is bad, and is unpopular
Andrei is a big deal i would say
Since then FB moved on the build their own Ocaml based language reasonml
Julia doesn't have a big company behind, yet the language is steadily climbing the popularity ladder (and i doubt they have anyone at the calibre of Andrei Alexandrescu, but again, good pogrammer is not a good program manager)
D is not popular, because its leader failed at making it popular, they failed to give the qualities that would make it popular