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Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.
Well, except Visual Studio (for C++), Qt Creator, and every Java IDE in existence.
Nothing else has code completion that even comes close to being that good.
Well, except Visual Studio (for C++), Qt Creator, and every Java IDE in existence.
There aren’t many good cross platform GUI toolkits. I mean realistically is there anything other than Qt?
I know what both of those are and how to use them. But they are entirely relevant to the thread. Did you comment in the wrong place?
What are you talking about?
Ugh yeah that’s infuriating on Github search too. Obviously if I’m searching for some identifier I don’t want 10 pages of results in /tests
.
How hard can it be? Just weight anything with test
in the file path lower than everything else. Job done.
formatting does depend on the type of variables. Go look at ktfmt’s codebase and come back after you’ve done so…
I skimmed it. It appears to visit the AST of the code and format that, as any formatter does. ASTs have not been type checked.
Can you give an example?
it gives you an option, just like if it was an interface. Did you actually try this out before commenting?
Precisely! It doesn’t know the answer so it has to guess, or make you guess.
And how often are you naming functions the exact same thing across two different classes without using an interface?
You mean how often does the same field name come up more than once? All the time obviously! Think about common names like id
, size
, begin
, children
, etc. etc.
I’m sorry, but you clearly haven’t thought this out, or you’re really quite ignorant as to how intellisense works in all languages (including Ruby, and including statically typed languages).
I’m sorry but you clearly haven’t thought this through, or you’re just happy to ignore the limitations of Ruby. I suspect the latter. Please don’t pretend they aren’t limitations though. It’s ok to say “yes this isn’t very good but I like Ruby anyway”.
This doesn’t surprise me in the least. For the longest time the only way to update Python was to compile it from source… They just don’t care too much about making their tooling work nicely. And that’s before you even add the complexity of Nix.
I would maybe just not use Nix for this at all and try something like Rye, which is a third party attempt to fix the Python mess. It lets you specify a Python version and supports lock files so in theory everything is actually reproducible… so it’s at least part way to what you’d have with Nix.
I think you’re getting a bit confused. How do you know where x
’s type is defined and therefore where x.bar
is defined if you don’t know what type x
is? It’s literally impossible. Best you can do is global type inference but that has very big limitations and is not really feasible in a language that wasn’t designed for it.
Do you think that formatters for dynamic languages need to know the type in order to format them properly? Then why in the world would you need it to know where to jump to in a type definition!?!
Not sure if that is a serious question, but it’s because formatting doesn’t depend on the type of variables but going to the definition of a field obviously depends on the type that the field is in.
Maybe my example was not clear enough for you - I guess it’s possible you’ve never experienced working intellisense, so you don’t understand the feature I’m describing.
class A:
bar: int
class B:
bar: str
def foo(x):
return x.bar
Ctrl-click on bar
. Where does it jump to?
I would prepare a healthy supply of alcoholic beverages and maybe some antidepressants! Also clear your calendar so you have a few weeks to debug.
I do like the author’s overall point that we should try and fix the issues rather than just pretend they don’t exist.
However a lot of these seem to be things that people have obviously thought of already, and they’ve thought about it more than the author and found problems that he just hasn’t got to yet. Incremental linking for example. Yeah obvious idea but did he think about all of these issues?
Good brainstorm anyway.
Oh really? How would an IDE go-to-definition on x.bar
in this code?
def foo(x):
return x.bar
Best it can do is heuristics and guesswork.
The kitty graphics protocol lets you send images to display in the terminal. I had a play around with it trying to make a similar GUI. The big gotcha is text rendering. You can either stick to normal grid aligned monospace, or I think you could maybe use a texture atlas, but it’s not going to be very efficient at all. I haven’t got as far as trying that though.
The videos… while they work are probably uncompressed video which is only going to work well over a very fast network.
I assume you’re talking about embeddable languages. I’ve used Rhai and it’s quite nice but I wish it had type annotations.
Gluon is another option but IMO they’ve gone way too far into crazy and unergonomic ML-style syntax. Which is weird considering it’s implemented in Rust which has much nicer syntax for the same things which they could have copied.
I’ve literally never heard anyone say that
Well you didn’t listen then. Google the phrase.
I can tell you’ve literally never even tried this…
I do not need to try it to know that this is fundamental impossible. But I will try it because you can go some way towards proper type knowledge without explicit annotations (e.g. Pycharm can do this for Python) and it’s better than nothing (but still not as good as actual type annotations).
It’s also much more readable than bash, python, javascript, etc. so writing a readable (and runnable everywhere)
Bash definitely. Not sure I’d agree for Python though. That’s extremely readable.
You’ll always get downvotes for this from Linux apologists who didn’t have the exact problems you’re describing, but you’re 100% right. There are loads of things you might reasonably want to do in Linux that require a command line, or just don’t work well.
You’re talking about rails.
Maybe other Ruby code is better, but people always say Rails is the killer app of Ruby so…
Use an IDE like I said and you can literally just “Find all usages” or “Jump to declaration”, etc.
That only works if you have static type annotations, which seems to be very rare in the Ruby world.
In any case, you shouldn’t be using any of these for large projects like gitlab, so it’s completely inconsequential.
Well, I agree you shouldn’t use Ruby for large projects like Gitlab. But why use it for anything?
This should work out of the box!
How do you expect the system to know what program is important to you and which isn’t?
Hmm
The windows solution is to switch tasks very often and to do a lot of accounting to ensure fair distribution.
Sounds like you have a good idea already!
You’re right of course. I think the issue is that Linux doesn’t care about the UI. As far as it is concerned GUI is just another program. That’s the same reason you don’t have things like ctrl-alt-del on Linux.
No they aren’t. A higher version of UUID isn’t “newer and better”, like the word “version” implies. It’s just different. It’s like they called a car “vehicle version 1” and a motorbike “vehicle version 2”. The common use of “version” in the software world would mean that a motorbike is a newer and hopefully improved version of a car, which is not the case.
The talking pumpkin is 100% right that they should have used “type” or “mode” or “scheme” or something instead.