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Mine is that the useState hook is an actual plague on the entire React ecosystem. Regardless of your opinions of React, if you wanna use something then use it right.

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[–] littleomid@feddit.org 6 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Wayland is not good.

Programming languages peaked with Lisp.

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)
[–] littleomid@feddit.org 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

It’s not as mature, feature rich and battle tested as xorg is. In a couple years maybe it’s as good, but as of right now, there are some incompatibility and missing feature issues.

[–] philipp_@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 days ago

Xorg is battle tested indeed. Tested and found critically lacking and unfixable in many aspects, security most of all.

[–] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 days ago

In covering the use cases of X it became just as much a mess.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Which Lisp though?

Scheme, Common Lisp, Lisp2 or one of the countless others that are incompatible?

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I prefer to use any Lisp rather than no Lisp. I enjoy Common Lisp and Elisp, and I sometimes teach using Racket.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Would you consider it a lisp if there are no macro support or lazy evaluation?

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Two different things. What makes a programming language a Lisp is also neither of those two things. For me homoiconicity is one of the main features of a Lisp.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

So any untyped S-expression grammar would be acceptable?

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

What are you trying to ask? It kind of feels like arguing with someone who’s trying to just find one mistake to say “aha!”.

[–] bacon_pdp@lemmy.world 0 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I am just trying to get a feel for the boundaries of what you consider a Lisp. (Started by trying to narrow by named lisps, then common major dividing features and am now trying to use broader syntax categories).

So no argument, just honest curiosity.

[–] littleomid@feddit.org 1 points 2 days ago

In short, homoiconicity, a function type, expression based programming, a symbol type, and having no distinction between read, run and compile-time. If it looks like a lisp and sounds like a lisp, then it’s a lisp. All languages you mentioned are lisps. So is Clojure, Elisp, MacLisp etc etc.