For a lot of things there are portability libraries that bridge vendor extensions between implementations. So, in practice, you can use features that aren't part of the ANSI standard (threads, sockets, ffi) without tying yourself to a single implementation. Also, FFI is pretty trivial in most implementations.
Thanks! I'm not the one who shared it here, but I'm the one who wrote the article. It was a blast to play around with Sam. I hope to play around with some other Plan 9 utilities as well.
It’s hard because subscription services hit a sweet spot in human psychology - cheap on a monthly basis so many are happy (can you go back to paying 400$ for software unless it’s something you are 100% guaranteed to want and use for a long time), and expensive in the long run so businesses are happy (also recurring stable revenues)
It’s unfortunate, but I don’t see a reversal any time soon. If I was a developer I would also want to do subscription based services, would you (put yourself in the shoes of someone running a software company)?
It’s criminal how many times I have paid for Microsoft Office though.
I think we just need to be much more discerning about the added value from a subscription.
In the case of some SaaS tools I pay for (like Todoist), I don't resent the model because I've seen steady improvements and the cost is low enough relative to the value I feel like I get. If they increased the price more than ~20%, I would probably cancel and use an alternative.
Netflix is different; I actually don't watch much content and would happily live without it, but it appears to be good enough value during the times I do use it, particularly given that I'm well aware of how expensive their products are to create in the first place.
The problems with reMarkable here are two-fold. Firstly, the existence of any subscription is problematic when the device has such a high up-front cost. Secondly, the prices they have chosen far exceed the value their "extra" services can offer. If they had priced it at $12 per year I would have probably grumbled but accepted it. By $24 we are around my personal tipping point where I think they are being unreasonable and I want to get out of the ecosystem. The real price of around $96 is totally absurd and makes me actively root against the company, at least enough to write these long comments and post them into the void.
Well unless people are selling their hacker news accounts, it’s seems genuine and I just think the poster was very appreciative and hence posting. Sometimes we can all be too cynical
Congratulations on it. I use Common Lisp myself, but always great to see energy and passion in other languages, especially in the Lisp family of languages (but I am clearly biased).
Hello! I saved a URL to a great article you wrote about web development in common lisp, but the domain appears to be offline. Any chance you have a new site? Sorry for the off topic reply, I don't think this site has DMs..
fwiw i've also thought that and moved to vscode with neovim as the backing editor for normal mode and it's generally fantastic. some rough edges but not that many... it's still neovim and vim in the background
You see, Show HN is usually for toy projects. Something bigger could be Launch HN ;)
I guess people really like building Lisps, glad to see their infectious energy. But I do get your opinion, it sort of just is like a homework problem, not particularly noteworthy (except for the first couple of times it was done).
So where does that leave us? Everything has been done before, so if we judged these projects too harshly, then there wouldn’t be anything left.
For me personally, seeing a new lisp always brings a smile, it’s a certain continuity once can rely on in our ever changing discipline ;) A rite of passage to read SICP and then implement a Lisp and show it to the world :-)
Why even the site founder started writing his owns lisps ;)
So in short, yes, except for any third party libraries