As a middle-class American, I don't feel like I have much input into the Iran war. I've voted, I've signed a few petitions, and I'm open to more suggestions for how I can stop the war, but I don't really think I can do much else- protest somewhere I suppose and hope that's helpful somehow
As a European, how do you influence your government?
I left this comment a while back https://hackernews.hn/item?id=45752905 when someone asked what was up with Elm at the current moment. I left a bunch off.
- Evan entered hermit mode to create Acadia, a language for an Elm-like experience querying the database. He's given conference talks about it but none have been recorded. https://acadia.engineering/ This seems to have the same goals as Lamdera.
In the meantime the ecosystem is getting crazy evolved. Turns out not changing the language under your feet for a few years leads to lots of development with what's currently there. Frameworks like elm-pages allowed for command line utils in Elm like elm-codegen. Elm-review lets you write linting rules with autofixes unlike anything I've used in other languages. A few people are writing forks and non-forks that target more than the browser or self-host the compiler. Every backend language I've used with decent types has a package to generate Elm types (and their decoders, and a nice way to interact with the JSON API, and deal with glue code generally).
If you read this far and are wondering which to check out, I cannot endorse Lamdera enough. Use the same types from your DB to your frontend and write zero glue code. Migrations required to update the running frontend/backend whenever you change anything. Really changes the way you write code.
You're missing Derw from that list: https://www.derw-lang.com/. Predates all the others, and is from a former core team member (me). I'm also the author of server-side Elm experiment known as [take-home](https://github.com/eeue56/take-home) from 11 years ago. I can see a lot of patterns in Sky's codebase which seem trained on Derw's codebase.
Also authored the first Elm-in-Elm compiler for a limited subset for json-to-elm, then leading to a pure Elm virtual-dom implementation used for elm-html-test!
I KNEW I forgot one. I'm really sorry. This list was off the dome and I was hoping to hit a Cunningham's law situation (which I did) without making anyone feel left out (which I failed).
No worries at all! I didn't take offense, it's very easy to forget one or two projects when quite frankly, Elm has managed to spawn or inspire so many!
I've looked at Polars. My sense is that Pandas is an interactive data analysis library poorly suited to production uses, and Polars is the other way around. Seemed quite verbose for example. Sometimes doing `series["2026"]` is exactly the right thing to type.
With some of the newest 3.x changes like copy-on-write, I find pandas getting quite verbose now as well.
In a world where AI is writing the code, I guess I shouldn't complain, but when I am discovering something the ai of choice yet again missed, both pandas and polars still feel verbose and lacking sugar.
I think the AI tooling is, if not completely solving sandboxing, at least making the default much better by asking you every time they want to do something and providing files to auto-approve certain actions.
Another layer of AI tooling is the cost of spinning up your own version of some libraries is lowered and can be made hyper specific to your needs rather than pulling in a whole library with features you'll never use.
> Another layer of AI tooling is the cost of spinning up your own version of some libraries is lowered and can be made hyper specific to your needs rather than pulling in a whole library with features you'll never use.
Tell me about it. Using AI Chatbots (not even agents), I got a MVP of a packaging system[1] to my liking (to create packages for a proprietary ERP system) and an endpoint-API-testing tool, neither of which require a venv or similar to run.
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[1] Okay, all it does now is create, sign, verify and unpack packages. There's a roadmap file for package distribution, which is a different problem.
> at least making the default much better by asking you every time they want to do something
Really? I thought 'asking you every time they want to do something' was called 'security fatigue' and generally considered to be a bad thing. Yes you can concatenate files in the current project, Claude.
I've been using the CHANGELOG [0] as a "blog" explaining WHY I made the changes and that's really been fun to look back and read too
0: https://github.com/bbkane/warg/blob/master/CHANGELOG.md
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