Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
47. Create-React-App and Gatsbyjs probably have made setup for Javascript projects much better.
Still probably not as easy to use or as powerful as shadow-cljs.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
48. Typescript is mostly hype.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
49. VScode is a typescript IDE, is probably pretty magical, and I am likely missing some cool sources of tools for thought inspiration by not playing in that ecosystem.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
50. Airtable is on track to be the Wordpress of relational databases.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
51. Graph databases are far better than relational databases for most things.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
52. Amendment to 4. No one who is loud about OO is doing real OO.
Agree Erlang is OO
https://x.com/weskerfoot/status/1206058780703776769?s=19…
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
53. In general, folks thinking about programming languages and computing more broadly, don’t know enough history.
Folks interested in the topic should read “The Dream Machine” to start and not blindly trust shitposters like me.
VN def over-hyped tho
https://x.com/Grady\_Booch/status/1206311525851357184?s=19…
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
54. One reason to know history is so you can see what elements of your language were put in place to deal with constraints in your environment that no longer exist
We don’t use punch-cards, we don’t need a distinction between expressions and statements
http://paulgraham.com/diff.html
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
55. Questions are not a sign of ignorance, they are a sign you are paying attention.
It’s more than OK to ask people to define terms or give a concrete example, and ok to stay in conversations you can barely understand.
Applies to conversations in and about all languages.
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
55. Meta opinion about my opinions on programming languages
https://x.com/Conaw/status/1206324267513597952?s=19…
Conor White-Sullivan 𐃏 @Conaw 2019-12-15
56. Datomic is far and away the best graph database available today.
Has Java and Clojure APIs, non jvm languages can use rest apis.
If you’re a startup, worth being in Clojure though.