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Some headway: here we are with an emacs-style of implementation, using #clojure for the hiccup and emacs as a battering ram for repetitive work.

@ProtoOfSnagem I haven't looked at the Syntax, but I ought to, since I'm something of a Lisp fan

Ah! I just discovered #emacs OOTBox forward-paragraph for going to the next blank line in code files, where I have big space-divided data structures

Does anyone else have muddled together in their mind Golang, Rust, and Dart, as three almost cult-favorite languages of similar popularity and unclear differentiation? Here's what I found; someone fill me in or prove me wrong, please!

Golang is easy, Rust is hard, Dart is made for web. Dart and Go were both Google products, though Dart is open now. Go and Rust hit heavy on the low-level performance thing. Rust has the most compelling Free Software story of the three, if tech ethics matter to you.

This article is wrong in almost every detail characterizing "web apps". At least some of the generic advice, like dealing with screen size and taking different devices in to account, is somewhat correct.

@icedquinn Oh. This thing?

@icedquinn What is this a subtoot of?

Janet is basically #Clojure atop C. Interesting, for those who love C. https://janet-lang.org/
Introduced by https://swlkr.com/posts/clojure-isnt-for-me/, which says that if you love C and are embedded in their ecosystem and are NOT doing big webdev (arguable point here), Janet might be what you want.

@sojournTime I like the Frama conviction to open source, and being able to see their code at https://github.com/framasoft/framadate. Is when2meet libre?

Trying to make this PDF item into a datastructure is proving a real pain. I mean, obviously it's a table of tables. But copy-paste is NOT my friend here.

Scheduling group meetings. I used to like Doodle, but they have descended down the Freemium path of obnoxiousness, so https://framadate.org/ framadate looks really nice -- and free-open intentions are written into their MO.

@icedquinn The idea being that you are only ever dealing with a smaller piece of the blockchain, rather than all of it?

@icedquinn Yeah, I totally get that. But it seems like space concerns are going we way of hierarchical directory structures; that is, kids these days don't know anything about them.

@icedquinn Interesting way to look at it. I was using XTDB (then, Crux) before I knew what blockchain was. Truth be told, I'm still not sure I know what blockchain is. But I think they definitely agree with you: https://xtdb.com/blog/blockchain-without-crypto/

@icedquinn Yep. A beautiful artifact of immutability. I have never seen them market that fact, but as someone who has gone to pains to implement soft-deletes in half a dozen PostGres systems after wishing we had it, this default with XTDB is nice.