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The Open Source Survey asked a broad array of questions. One that caught my eye was about problems people encounter when working with, or contributing to, open source projects. An incredible 93 percent of people reported being frustrated with “incomplete or confusing documentation”.
That’s hardly a surprise. There are a lot of projects on Github with the sparsest of descriptions, and scant instruction on how to use them. If you aren’t clever enough to figure it out for yourself, tough.
[...] According to the Github Open Source Survey, 60 percent of contributors rarely or never contribute to documentation. And that’s fine.
Documenting software is extremely difficult. People go to university to learn to become technical writers, spending thousands of dollars, and several years of their life. It’s not really reasonable to expect every developer to know how to do it, and do it well.
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(Score: 2) by VLM on Tuesday June 06 2017, @03:59PM (1 child)
There are no obvious factual errors in Danny's reply to the best of my knowledge at this time.
A very short answer to your very specific question in a limited sense is "yes"
A longer answer to that specific question including plenty of low level implementation examples is at:
http://www.braveclojure.com/concurrency/ [braveclojure.com]
Clojure for the Brave and True is a bit of an acquired taste but I figured it would be more fun than a link into clojuredocs.org. clojuredocs is best used if you already know you want a future and you merely forgot some detail about futures.
Its not a magic or magic-ish language like Erlang you kinda have to intentionally parallelize stuff in Clojure for it to run multi-core but its not hard either and there's plenty of support.
It works.
(Score: 2) by DannyB on Tuesday June 06 2017, @04:39PM
This [objectcomputing.com] is an intro that I found useful as an into to Clojure, a long time ago.
I think I remember an amusing YouTube video where Rich Hickey mentions running some cool core.async program on Azul's custom hardware with hundreds of cpu cores.
I am excited to try Pixie Lisp on a Pi. So many projects to tinker with. So little time. Ugh.
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