I love Vim and use Vim bindings everywhere I can (Emacs, Firefox, Intellij etc.).
But I don't think it is actually more efficient than traditional editing, but rather just a different way of editing which may be (or may be not) more convenient to _some_ people (myself included).
Especially nowadays with modern IDEs and auto-completions and AI code helpers, it's not really about text editing anymore, it's not the bottleneck.
Async, await, iterators, futures etc. are pretty much standard constructs in almost all programming languages / concurrency frameworks.
Whereas Actions, Transitions, Pending State, Reducers etc. are React-specific idiosyncrasies.
I guess that's the main issue people have with React, when you learn it you have to spend so much time to learn all these React-specific constructs and idiosyncrasies that are not transferable anywhere else.
When one is learning to program, one doesn't jump straight into learning coroutine management.
Similarly, wether they are React-specific idiosyncrasies or not, one shouldn't assume people need to jump straight into Actions, Transitions, etc when first learning React.
For me 3brown1blue series: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aircAruvnKk was an excellent introduction that made Andrej's videos understandable. Then I did 3 first chapters of fastai book, but found it too high level, while I was interested in how things works under the hood.
Going through Andrej's makemore tutorials required quite a lot of time but it's definitely worth it. I used free tier of Google Colab until the last one.
Pausing the video a lot after he explains what he plans to do and trying to do it by myself was a very rewarding way to learn, with a lot of "aha" moments.
The whole Solar Cycle (The Book of the New Sun, Urth of The New Sun, The Book of The Long Sun, The Book of The Short Sun), Fifth Head of Cerberus, Peace, There Are Doors, The Sorcerer's House ... .
The Gene Wolfe's novels are outstanding. I think it should be more well-known. I just heard of him by coincidence in a blog post that appeared in my RSS feed, and no one that I know had ever heard of him.
I fizzled on Malazan. Despite warnings that the first book isn't that great - but the series is! - I really enjoyed it. However I subsequently found the second book to be an unsatisfying grind and then so was the third where I stopped half-way.
I have just started The Book of the New Sun and am hopeful it will be a better experience.
Really? I have the opposite experience. I _want_ to love CL but Clojure wins when it comes to IDE support and libs and documentation.
Maybe it's just me but I find (SB)CL tooling to be very obscure: ASDF, QuickLisp, Roswell etc. My main issue with it is that it's all written in CL itself and doesn't provide handy CLI tools to execute common tasks (compile app, build package, run tests, deploy etc.). Not to mention that documentation is horrendous.
Basically, I want it to have something like Maven/Gradle/Leiningen to manage dependencies, run tasks and so on. Am I missing something?
ros init and ros build should be everything. And emacs for the tooling. Quicklisp for dependency management. Having said that even CL is not perfect. Something like https://fresh.deno.dev/ is so much better when it comes to presentation and ease of use.
