Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. / is on Nostr

Born 1980-05-15 in Mena, AR
Cis White Male He/him
Liberal Democratic Socialist Idealist
Professional Haskell Programmer
Lives in Cove, AR
(24 years resident of Fayetteville, AR)

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Last Notes

2024-09-08 17:59:35

5km in 27:14 #running
Time to get back to adding incline.

2024-08-30 15:04:30

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I hope this is true. I feel like being compatible with userland is "easy" (tho, sysfs and iocntl and fnctl are never truly easy) but actually porting / wrapping all the hacky kernel driver modules could easily swallow person-years of time.
I hope this is true because eventually Linus and/or the Linux foundation is going to fail in some way, so we need to be able to transition to new leadership or consensus building.

2024-08-30 14:26:43

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Some things we want software to do are essentially complicated. But many systems are needlessly complected / complex.
That said, I don't think GHC is quite as simple as it should be. Haskell-by-the-Report is simpler and a much better experience to read/write. (It does, unfortunately, have some fairly essential performance issues.)
I haven't found it yet, but I feel that there's a dependently typed system out there (maybe GHC in the future) that's both simpler AND more capable.

2024-08-30 14:26:43

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2024-08-03 00:58:11

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As a user that doesn't want to be a developer of *all* of my programs, I absolutely disagree.
Static analysis must be done so that developers can fix problems before I (or any other user) encounter them. Sufficient static analysis also generates an optimized-for-runnning form that I want to call a "compiled binary".
FLOSS should be the default, preferred form of distribution, but not everyone should have to deal with developer/maintainer problems.