Okay, I need a 32" TV for my bedroom. #HDR is a MUST! anyone have any NON-#SAMSUNG suggestions? NO NEED for #DolbyVision. Prefer #LG, but just need #LCD/#OLED that can hang on wall. TV is ~10 ft from head of bed - if that makes a diff. Only using w/AppleTV 4k Gen2. No TV tuner requirement.
@leonerd@tripleo I can only confirm this, even if currently FFI support does allow to bind #Perl to C/C++ quite easily. I find the general situation much better of other seasoned languages such as #Tcl or #Lisp, instead.
Uncommon opinion (but not necessarily unpopular): I love languages with large standard libraries. I enjoy flipping through the language documentation, scouting for interesting functions or classes that may eventually come in handy.
My favorite large library language is Common Lisp but of course there are many others such as Smalltalk, Python, and Java.
Writing a #Portfile for #MacPorts, I touched the basics of #Tcl. This programming language appeared to be elegant, with clear and catchy syntax.
It looks like a very nice choice for #scripting. Now I'm not surprised that Sqlite was born as Tcl extension initially. And surprised Tcl isn't widely used in #DevOps, for instance. I'm quite sure this #language is suitable for a number of tasks in today's #programming, so pls share if you have real life example(s).
One field of use for #tcl that I think people might find surprising is that it mixes well with #nix , at least to me.
Tcl in #nixos has few dependencies, so you can use it for miscellaneous scripts without feeling bad about it.
When doing Nix stuff you can easily get into a few layers of quoting, something Tcl's syntax handles better than the shell code people instinctively reach for.
Tcl excels at orchestrating and composing system commands, again a typical Nix concern.
Finally, even though the programming model could be said to be the inverse of functional programming, on a superficial level I think Nix code and Tcl have a shared aesthetic, they just look good together. 😃
seemingly out of nowhere I've somehow found myself delving deeper into technologies that could be classified as "permacomputing"-friendly or adjacent. I've recently been doing a lot of reading and exploration on things like around redbean, lua, tcl/tk, c, portability, longevity, and "old" tech and can't help but get excited or overly curious about them.
#Tcl (also known as Tool Command Language; pronounced as either "tickle" or as an initialism) is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.
It was made in 1988 by John Ousterhout and it was inspired mainly by #C, #Lisp, #Shell, #Awk and has served as one of the inspirations of #PowerShell and #Python due to its simplicity and elegance.
I'm old enough to have begun using #unix before #linux, and in the first years, I used *nix (well, SunOS, Solaris, and Digital OSF/1, to say more precisely) for so long. I'm what nowadays is considered a Veteran Unix Admin or #vua. I'm still curious enough to stay updated about current tech, but I wonder how many people out there in the #fediverse are still passionate about tech novelties but even cultivate legacy knowledge such as #C, #Perl, #Tcl, #autoconf and #automake, #m4 and above all why?
ok, after all that #redis kerfuffle let's have some fun:
Who built a Redis-like cache/data store/database (maybe protocol compatible?) for fun or shit-posting?
May that be in bash, awk, storing data in DNS, ...
Share your silly project!
RayNeo Air 2 Review! https://youtu.be/_CsV-Vbzgis
Smaller, lighter, faster, and less expensive! These could be the XR glasses to beat?
But is RayNeo making TOO many compromises to hit the lower price?
My 18yo nephew asked me what my favorite #ProgrammingLanguage is and I don’t actually know the answer.
I use#C and #Go for applications. I write #Python for data munging and scripts and small apps. I’ve written many thousands of lines of each. I sponsor #Zig.
«Selon nos informations, le 28 mars prochain, le Sytral devrait confier la gestion du métro lyonnais à l'opérateur parisien, dans le cadre du nouveau marché. Keolis, l'actuel exploitant, continuera lui de gérer les bus. Les changements sont attendus pour début 2025.»
This is a little project I've been working on for a few weeks. I think the basic functionality is now working, though there are still many aspects I hope to improve. Of course much of usenet is now a wasteland inhabited only by spammers and cranks. But there are still worthwhile corners, such as comp.lang.tcl, so I think this may have some value. 🙂 #usenet#tcl#tcltk#programming
My review of the TCL 40 NXTPAPER at Gizmodo Australia features (amongst many other details), blue lights, human cloning, Kirby, a guy called Dave and moody jazz.
I really have considered every angle… and then some.