p0nce's comments

On: Zig's comptime is bonkers good

[p0nce]

I'm using D for audio plugins and we do use CTFE extensively (named comptime in Zig). Zig might be a bit more fit maybe because of the easier C and C++ interop and targetting, but I'm not sure about the COM and OOP story.

On: Zig's comptime is bonkers good

[p0nce]

Because it goes hand-in-hand with your code self-describing with static reflection.

On: AI makes tech debt more expensive

[p0nce]

Code is not really lossy zipped text.

On: Future Music magazine is closing after 32 years

[p0nce]

Yes: https://www.welivesecurity.com/2019/06/20/loudminer-mining-c...

On: On Good Software Engineers

[p0nce]

You don't see blogs about all the desirable properties of a software company with 10/10 in every direction.

On: Digital River runs dry, hasn't paid developers for...

[p0nce]

itch.io

On: Does “building in public” work?

[p0nce]

Yes I feel like this "public" work only for non-veblen goods, else it just devaluates the whole creation process.

On: Neurotechnology numbers worth knowing (2022)

[p0nce]

I found this book very helpful to understand most cellular process, and viruses, with an intuition of how things works at these scales: https://www.amazon.com/Machinery-Life-David-S-Goodsell/dp/03...

On: SIMD Matters: Graph Coloring

[p0nce]

Doubling the register size only affects things if CPU operations were the bottleneck. Often he bottleneck is memory accesses.

On: How to build quickly

[p0nce]

Yet another word for "top-down" design.