I am mostly complaining about his writing style. Obviously the subject itself is interesting (to some people)

I wouldn’t bet my eye on it, but who knows!.. Maybe he was a better teacher before!

Again, Knuth himself said in a preface that Volumes 2 through 5 are independent.

That sounds interesting, will take a look. I am not against theoretical computer science, i just think Knuth doesn’t reads like a good teacher…

Because volume 1 is not available in the library

Edit: but also the volumes aren’t not dependent on each other. They treat very different topics, i doubt reading Volume 1 will help with Volume 4.

I would not recommend using parquet instead of csv. Indeed, parquet is a type of wooden flooring, while csv is a human readable file format. As you can see, it is not wise to replace one with the other. Don’t hesitate about asking more questions regarding your home design!

I would be lying if I said that I was a professional Ocaml developer.

I do definitely think the Jane’s library is very hard to read… But that might be my inexperience

I personally think regular, procedural code is much easier to read ¯_(ツ)_/¯

If you want to read some monads in the wild, go check the code for Jane’s Street “core_unix.command_unix”

Otherwise, GADT, but they are used sparingly because they make type inference undecidable

So they posted that screenshot before even trying to run it on some useless file to see it works… Internet points are surely a drug

React +python + postgres/sqlite

Your last question is equivalent to : why there so many math theories? Can’t we just reuse the old ones?

New language appear as a natural product from research in type theory for ex

Even something as ubiquitous as JSON is not handled in the same way in different databases, same goes for Dates, and UUID. I am not even mentioning migrations scripts. As soon as you start writing raw SQL, I pretty sure you will hit a compatibility issue.

I was specifically talking about python, can’t argue with golang. OK you have a valid point for performance, gotta keep an eye on that. However, I am satisfied for our CRUD api

and how you run your tests? Do you spawn a DB backend for test purposes?

You don’t even mention the 2 main advantages:

• ORM lets you to use plain objects over untyped strings. I take typed anything over untyped anything, everyday
• ORM lets you to use multiple database backends. For ex, you don’t need to spawn a local postgres server, then clean/migrate it after each test suit, you can just use in-memory sqlite for that. OK this has some gotchas, but that’s a massive improvement in productivity

Advertisement is a fucking syphilis, a cancer and a gangrene combined. Don’t tell me what to watch what to visit

Unfortunately sometimes the code base is fuckd up beyond repair, it can’t even be tested. that’s why i submitted 3000 line PR ☠️