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This is a tangent, but does Fable still require you to manually toposort your module hierarchy in an XML file? That was my experience using the language with VS Code circa a year ago.

I start missing Rust approximately 30 minutes into every new Typescript project I work on because there's no good alternative to Rust enums (and other benefits that come with them, like pattern m…

I think ME2's great reviews were mostly driven by the excellent cast of memorable characters you got to assemble throughout the game. Such an upgrade over the BioWare trademark mild soup of forge…

20 years later we finally got the answer. Drinking yourself half to death and losing most of your memory in the process can change the nature of a man.

A dictionary app I use looks at the clipboard when opened and automatically displays a translation iff 1) the copied text is new compared to the previous time the app was used; and 2) the text is in t…

Here are the steps I've been following: 1) Sign up for Fastmail. 2) Sync all mail from GMail account to Fastmail (via the Fastmail web UI; you grant FM access to your GMail data through OAuth - o…

Please, you're driving me crazy. I have referred to you personally by name in two of my above comments. I know who you are! I also know about JSOO vs BS! I know! And it's super disorienting …

I think "getting OCaml features at a slower rate than OCaml itself does" counts as "falling behind", yes. 2015 OCaml was an excellent language. 2020 OCaml is exquisite.

Ah, you're right. I did judge the Reason project by the number of commits its main repo has seen in the past year. But surely you'll agree that "fast development, fast running, fully ty…

I think you know what I mean. 4.02.3 was released in 2015. 4.06 was released in 2017. Like I said, I know the tradeoffs between JSOO and Reason. And lack of features from the past 2~3 years of OCaml d…

Thank you for taking the time to reply, Jordan, but none of what you posted is relevant to my concerns from the above two comments.

To clarify, the link in 1) is where I took the number of changes from. And Re: 2) I have no doubt that Mr. Zhang knows what he's doing. I was just noting how even after the prodigious amount of w…

Reason support in VSCode is very solid.

Congratulations on the release! I have a couple questions for you (and any other contributors!) about the project, but I don't know how to phrase them without coming off as combative. Please acce…

> While there was hope that incident could be contained and radiation levels were low no evacuation were needed Excuse me, hope ? Evacuation was not necessary because there was hope that things …

> most sources that say this seem to draw it from the HBO series as if it were a documentary That would be strange, because the series didn't show them die. And one of the epilogue screens sai…

I'm sorry, but that means nothing to me. I have no idea what "clarity of thought" means in this particular instance. Same for "design pillars", regardless of whether it's…

Thank you for the elaborate reply! There's a lot of room for thought there! But while I'm here... Minecraft is a quintessential roguelike game. You arrive, naked and alone, on a hostile worl…

I'm not arguing that all of them are the same thing. I'm 1) wondering why we need to distinguish between them in the first place; and 2) saying there's way to much overlap between the c…

> a useful model Please explain the usefulness of a taxonomy that has "game", "activity", "event", and "toy" as discrete entities.

> The question raised ("Is Stripe collecting this data for advertising?") can be readily answered in the negative. Are Stripe co-founders paid by the word, or did that message get throu…

CNN's average reader couldn't pick Magnus Carlsen out of a police lineup. At that point you either try grasping at whatever semblance of credibility you have: "Chess prodigy finally def…

In fact, it was Magnus himself (currently 29 years old, as of April 2020) who said his favorite chess player was himself, when he was around 23. That Magnus apparently saw things on the board that cur…

Agreed 100%. If you're the editor thinking up this headline, you've got a choice between a) crediting established chess powerhouse Firouzja with a well-deserved victory over Magnus; or b) do…

Trait params have little to do with OOP. Opaque types are not a "small OOP improvement", they finally bring zero-cost newtypes to Scala, superseding value classes. Now you can finally ensure…

Well, either the language will leave async runtimes in the domain of third-party libraries, which is the current approach. Or, the potential blessed one in std will be an alternative that you may or m…

Please allow me to share my view of the conversation up to this point: Boats: Here is an approach I use in my personal projects that has proven to be ergonomic, consistent with other language features…

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