That’s super helpful, thank you!

Interesting article, I don’t think I have a use for them though.

You’re absolutely right.

Oh great point. I’d add skiing to that category.

Awesome! I will try it out. Thanks!

Agreed!

As long as it’s not automated and spammy, i’m game.

I’ll have to give it a try

I too am a Vim user learning Clojure. I am trying to use Cursive since I often use IntelliJ. I suspect the concept of structural editing will be powerful, but for now it’s still an awkward process for me.

I’ve doubled the ram for anarch.is in anticipation. Not sure if it will be enough. fear

There’s a typo: gas should be has

I’m doing my part!

Saving memes is my main lemmy use case.

I love that we have so many high quality options.

That’s an interesting point about depending too heavily on a debugger. I haven’t run into anyone too dependent on it, but I could see that happening.

To me, debuggers offer a tighter dev loop when there’s something you’re stuck on. They also let you ‘grok’ a call stack in an unfamiliar codebase. “Did this function get called?” “What’s in this variable?” etc.

How do people do stuff without debuggers? :D

Another way to develop would be through iterating within a Unit Test that you don’t plan to keep around.

Uh, I set a breakpoint and run the app?

To add a bit more context, it’s more difficult to configure a debugger when the application is running within something like Docker. How difficult? That depends on the language and tools you’re using.

For my own projects I’m trying to build things I actually want. Tools for myself. But now the hard part becomes identifying a tool you wish you had, and scoping it down enough so that it’s appropriately sized for a new language. Tricky to approach the task from two ends.

If you aren’t familiar with dependency injection, that could prove a hurdle. Same for webflux/reactor. I would avoid using webflux until you feel more familiar with non-reactive spring. Otherwise it will feel overwhelming.

I feel this way about Hell Let Loose sometimes

I setup Anarch.is today. Feel free to create an account. Still need to write-up guidelines, enable community creation, etc. but it’s ready if you want to post/comment on other instances.

If we run into server load problems i’ll upgrade it. 😎