Tom

Are there are any memory safe, reference counting languages that have a tiny implementation and compile directly to wasm? I'd like to think I know a good answer to this, but I'm unsure.

Escape Loop by Tom Play in your browser

Very small PICO-8 game I made for the GMTK Jam. tjpalmer.itch.io/escape-loop

I'm the bear

Yeah, this video was awesome. Where hacker geek meets nature.

YouTube video by Context Free Faster GDScript in Godot? Compiling and running as WebAssembly

New video! Compiling GDScript to and running on WebAssembly youtu.be/hmyxqrzgL28

It was brutal by the end for me, but yeah, I'm still glad I went on the walk.

Happily the high today in Tucson is only about 29C. Last Saturday, I walked by choice for about 15 miles at about 37C. (That can be dangerous, but I know how to be careful, at least.) I'm crazy enough to enjoy the heat somewhat, but it's nice to have cooler days also.

It's interesting how Recreational Programming scratches the same itch as Gaming. You are basically playing Factorio on your CPU.

I've updated the Zig code in the repo, because I should have tried the easy thing first. I didn't expect it to, but standard error set inference using `![]const u8` on mapJoin just works here.

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Just published a new video on error generics. youtu.be/OcyijYJq18s

I expect a lot of usability is familiarity, but I use Mac very little, and it constantly annoys me. I have a hard time making sense of iPhone also.

Recently thought about how "native" in Java and "foreign" as in FFI are both used in Java to refer to the same idea. I guess Java sees itself as the foreigner when using the "native" term.

View down from a steep mountain with a saguaro cactus in the foreground and others further away. Also the city of Tucson in the far background.

Happy Easter! And here's a view from my hike yesterday.

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Just published a new video on panics, errors, and exceptions. youtu.be/TQOLosBgX20

Less than 9 minutes left of video recording to edit for the next video. Maybe can release by Friday if I manage to fit time in. If not then likely early next week. Languages: Java, C#, Rust, C, Gleam.

And Epstein. Occasional others.

Everything everywhere through most of history (even if not all at once) only applies to the poor. Or when one rich person crosses a richer person in the wrong way.

Some languages with VSCode extensions that I've noticed auto format on save by default:
- Gleam
- Go
- Zig
I love the confidence of reliability and speed that this presupposes and encourages. I haven't yet been burned by them, but I also don't use any of them daily.

Request for testers: Gleam support in Mix Hi! I have a PR on the elixir repo that adds support for gleam in Mix. There you’ll find the instructions to test the feature before it’s released. It will allow you to add gleam path dependencies i...

Do you want to use Gleam in a Mix project? Maybe write some complex domain logic in a type-safe language in a Phoenix project?

Try this elixirforum.com/t/request-fo...

#myelixirstatus @elixir-lang.org @gleam.run

That sounds very sad.

Ferrous Systems Donates Ferrocene Language Specification to Rust Project - The Rust Foundation Rust 1.0 was published in May 2015. As the language approaches its 10th anniversary, Rust has become one of the fastest growing and most-loved languages [1] among developers, thanks to a combination o...

Thank goodness the #rustlang foundation decided to take this path rustfoundation.org/media/ferrou...

One of my cousins moved to Ukraine from America last year. He provides some of my perspective on the situation there.

Tom next to tree near cliff edge with rugged mountains behind.

In Coronado National Forest. Very steep trail but great views.

Sounds fine to me. Good work!

As an American, it's heartbreaking to me that we can't ever be trusted again as a nation. People shouldn't ever trust us again, because we're clearly untrustworthy. And it's very sad to me.

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New video: Interview with C3 author Christoffer Lernö! youtu.be/UC8VDRJqXfc

I agree it's not easily clear to beginners. I'm just saying it's not objectively bad or wrong, I don't think. I think it's somewhat related and meaningful. (And I can complain about a lot of things in C.)

I don't hate it. Fewer keywords (or words to have in scope if not a keyword). And it doesn't imply any storage size, so arithmetic on it clearly makes no sense. Also dereferencing is clearly wrong. It's sort of like unknown vs any in TypeScript, where void* is more like unknown.

Simple examples are good, for sure.