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0 pointsjfoutz5y ago0 comments

Haskell typeclasses. They really are interfaces that don’t leak.

Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.

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xnx5y ago· 3 in thread

I came here to says SSD. There's never been as big a performance upgrade you could make.

This made me think back to HDD days. As much as they sucked I kind of miss the HDD grunt - I could hear when stuff was using my disk, it was kind of reassuring that the PC was working. Sort of like that floppy drive boot check sound. That HDD seek rumble and CD spin when you were installing games. Objectively these things are a negative but I kind of miss it. This also made me realize where car fans complaining about the electric car feel are coming from :)

etempleton5y ago

I remember the first time I used a computer with an SSD. Many of the performance issues I naively blamed on the CPU or lack of memory were really the HDD. I just never had anything better to compare it to.

bloopernova5y ago

I recently moved from a M.2 750MB/s SSD to an M.2 NVME one that does about 3,750MB/s.

That was an amazing boost that I'm so very glad to have purchased. Ironically enough, it was to have enough space to install Cyberpunk 2077 :)

colesantiago5y ago· 2 in thread

Interesting, i've haven't seen hype for Haskell type classes, is there anywhere I can see the hype for this on the internet?

jfoutzOP5y ago

Uh, not typeclasses specifically, but Haskell gets a bit of hype. Typeclasses deliver so much, I think they alone make the pain of learning worth it.

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idnefju5y ago

F# feature request forum :)

savanaly5y ago

Instead of making my own top level comment I'll just add onto this one: functional programming in general and Elm in particular. A lot of languages and frameworks promise to make programming fun, Elm is the only one that's held up for more than a few weeks. Months later I'm still doing substantial side projects in it and get a rush just from opening up a new .elm file and starting a new set of types and pure functions.

Funny you should mention type classes-- that's one of the biggest things that Elm, the little brother to Haskell in many ways, doesn't support (and doesn't intend to, for reasons of limiting the footguns available to devs and also keeping to the high standard it sets for itself for error messages IIRC...)

wespiser_20185y ago

I would agree with "Haskell", and typeclasses are probably are the most important feature, if such a thing could exist. However, was there a lot of hype for typeclasses when they came out in the 90s? It seems like outside the pure functional programming domain, typeclasses have not yet reached their zenith!

Quarrel5y ago

> Solid state disks. Huge speed boost.

You should have seen the leap from tapes to magnetic disks :)

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