Notices by Christine Lemmer-Webber (cwebber@social.coop)

@cwebber If speed mattered, Python would be irrelevant.

@promovicz Indeed, I spoke to one bitter lisp compiler hacker. "We spent all these years listening to the Unix people, oh, we can't use your language, oh it's not fast enough, and we optimized the hell out of it and it turned out to be a lie! Those same people didn't bat an eye at Python!"

"But is lisp fast"

Most lisps are compiled languages; as far as 'dynamic' languages go they tend to be pretty damn fast.

(And if you're both like "I use Rust because it's fast" AND you're vibecoding, yeah it's probably faster than your vibecoded spaghetti)

@rnd Rust is on average slower than C in most benchmarks I have seen?

@defuneste @deech 😈 here you go

"Memory safe languages are the future"

Yeah! And also the past!

I know you've forgotten languages other than Rust exist but the lisp family of languages have been embodying memory safety for over 60 years now

it's ok while everyone else is brainrotting we're still making code that matters, doubling down on it even. stay focused, stay good

@dthompson @kingcons AND ALSO @wingo already made a good proposal https://wingolog.org/archives/2023/10/19/requiem-for-a-stringref

Oh yeah. Suuuuuure. Uhuh. I see how it is.

GIMP: The Movie (2026) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs56ILRcYTg

This rules. I would totally watch a feature length version of this (which isn't to give the poor career advice of attempting it)

The interview is also great https://tedium.co/2026/04/07/pork-johnson-gimp-parody-interview/

(By @ernie at @tedium )

We're gonna need another Timmy!!!

@octonion Excited to see you excited :)

Here's @ridley and @dthompson talking over OCapN!

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@ridley/116273832190043203

This is WILD! @ridley has been working on an implementation of OCapN, which is the same protocol @spritely uses for communication with Spritely Goblins programs.

AND... AND!!!

@ridley got this working in interoperability with @spritely's Goblins! AND FACT @dthompson and @ridley chatted over Goblin-Chat between Dart and Guile Scheme implementations!

@jfred There's an issue for it now at least! https://codeberg.org/spritely/goblins/issues/949

Yes sometimes other tests seem to fail too, but mostly it's test-unix-domain-socket

All of the failures seem to be due to race conditions with lower level IO stuff, probably Fibers or even lower, afaict

Maddening shit, my least favorite part of working with our stack is not the abstractions of our stack itself but the challenges of the layers beneath it. It's so rare to encounter an actual race condition problem that's due to correct use of Goblins! It's all the Fibers integration and socket setup stuff etc etc...

@agentultra It doesn't happen typically in the abstraction layers we provide, but in the abstraction layers we build on top of...

Okay I guess it's too early to announce what I mean but I am ready to throw a parade and carry @ridley around on a throne this fucking rules #kindavague #itshypetho

@hannah guix gc: freed 48 GiB

you know it's never unsettling at all when you're experiencing an IO bug, and inserting print debugging to understand where it happens, and inserting print debugging makes the IO bug disappear #offtotheraces

Right now I am debugging a unit test failure that is completely fine in all architectures in a dev environment but ONLY inside of a guix build jail on aarch64, it fails