Re: [dev] [dmenu] [patch] Use slow path if stdin is a tty

2019-01-27 Thread Hiltjo Posthuma
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 05:02:05PM +0100, dok wrote: > Hi, > > This is a simple patch to prevent from being locked by having dmenu > waiting on fgets to read from a tty with the keyboard already grabbed. > > cheers > > From d579ee3221be1bd3fb5c1cf9c9bf55a2da68882c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 > Fro

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-27 Thread Hadrien Lacour
How do you reconcile love of minimalism with the big added runtime complexity of a garbage collector (when you need to support multithreading and balance latency, throughput and memory usage)? Personally, I think that a high level language that can easily interact with a low level one is a good so

Re: [dev] Let's talk about Go, baby

2019-01-27 Thread Richard Wiedenhöft
On Sat, Jan 26, 2019 at 11:45:39AM -0800, Anselm Garbe wrote: > The language itself is certainly better than C++ or Java and avoided > many mistakes (like exceptions and going to far with OO). On the other > hand the typesystem isn't great and much more complex than golang's > approach. Also I disl