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  • I can’t comment as I’ve not used scheme but looking at scheme’s syntax, elixir is much nicer. It’s supposed to take some of its inspiration from Ruby.

    The big seller is that it runs on the Erlang VM so you get all the goodies for free: supervisor trees, OTP, processes, even able to call Erlang directly. It is both scriptable and compiled. Not so much suited for high performance computing though as benchmarls will show, but it is interesting to learn and I have gained a lot from exposing myself to functional programming paradigms.

    https://elixir-lang.org/






  • A lot of good stuff here. Especially realising how useful an LLM actually is for coding. It’s a tool and like most tools has a purpose and a limit. I don’t use a screwdriver to put in nails (well sometimes I do at a pinch, but the results suck) or cut wood in half. Spicy autocomplete is probably a good use case, but even then “use with care” should be employed.

    The whole “prompt it correctly” stuff is pn point. People have written books on how to correctly and effectively prompt the LLM. If I need to read a book to learn something, why not just read the book on how to do the thing? Or use the LLM to summarise the book, then at least you’re going to get somewhat accurate information. We had someone create an AGENTS.md at work and I read it and it just sounds like a joke “You are expert in this and the human known everything. If unsure ask the human” etc. If the main gain is that I don’t need to type so much I might as well use voice dictation.

    That is aside the financial, environmental, health, and safety issues and damages that are all bundled in for free. If people just saw it for what it is, instead of glamourising them as the panacea for all their problems.