James Cuénod 🇿🇦

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The job hunt continues…

If anyone knows of any open developer roles, preferably in ed tech or ed tech adjacent, I'd appreciate the lead!

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Congrats Matt!

God, Slavery, and Early Christianity is out in the real world with @universitypress.cambridge.org!

I have some extra, so retweet this by the end of Oct. 19 if you’re interested in receiving a copy!

Book info here: www.cambridge.org/core/books/g...

Change your language setting from Amharic back to English

@krisajenkins.bsky.social After TaxiQL, DataFusion, Trustfall in the recent lineup, you keep making me think you're going to do an episode on PRQL (prql-lang.org )... @tobiasbrandt.bsky.social

@michigantypescript.com I have no business doing language design/compiler development. So I'm looking for people to talk to about chicory-lang.github.io. Would you have any interest?

Shepherd is such a beast! When I was doing ApF stuff for Parabible, I literally just kicked the can down the road on it...

Phrase Maze: A daily word puzzle game
jcuenod.github.io/phrase-maze-...

Congrats, glad to hear it :)

I saw you're also presenting at a Chicago meetup! Wish I could join, hope it's a good time :)

Really enjoyed reading this. Love most of the work you guys are doing! Keep it up :)

Why I Made a Language to Be JavaScript's Nanny
chicory-lang.github.io/blog/why-i-m...

When I first read "no side-effects", my brain immediately said "he's using pure functions?" But I'm also glad to hear there were no side-effects of the lower dose...

The one (successful) example the Dems have of responding in defiance was the government shutdown (2018-2019) when Trump refused to sign the appropriations bill, and Pelosi said "fine, here's your shutdown".

@tsnobip.bsky.social Why does Rescript need `module`s?

Thanks! I now recall seeing that this was possible...

Could you point me to an example/docs?

I'm hoping that it's possible to rip the right stuff out of JS/TS and make minor additions, so that you could easily mistake Chicory for JS. But suddenly you get a ton of guarantees. Admittedly, that may be a pipe dream...

Ja, I've used Rescript for a couple of projects (I actually asked Kris to do this episode), and I agree, the objectives are very similar. The big thing for me is that Rescript is still quite a different language. All of `module`, `@react.component` and `let make = ()` are new.

I'm curious, in what ways is it not a "perfect" fit?

One of the things I realized in this episode is that a language I'm just starting out designing (chicory-lang.github.io) has nigh identical goals, but is launching from the TS side rather than the OCaml side. So I'm interested in any pain points.

Thanks so much! I love that this worked out :)

YouTube video by Developer Voices ReScript: A Better Typed JavaScript? (with Gabriel Nordeborn)

Much as I like #TypeScript, I think there's still plenty of room for competition. We need something that feels broadly like #JavaScript, but shaves away the corner cases, compiles faster, and just…flows…better. Could that be #ReScript? Let's find out…

youtu.be/yKl2fSdnw7w

I really have no business doing any kind of language design. So this is really a PoC of a Poc, set expectations accordingly :)

@chriskrycho.com thinking of a better ratchet for the JS world.

Did you try fine-tuning NLLB? The reason it's being used by SIL is that you get the transfer learning advantage of similar structures from related languages... There may be performance gains to be had here.

What comes after Typescript? jcuenod.github.io/bibletech/20...

Building a GUI for LLMs that helps bechmark models... Thanks @groqinc.bsky.social. Idea for benchmark from benkaiser.dev/can-llms-acc... Feedback anyone? #MLSky

fwiw, I'm really curious about Purescript too, but I think my non-ML language background has biased me towards Rescript. But I thoroughly enjoy the ML-tilt of the podcast :)