iron VS komorebi

Scala has quite good support for refined types across multiple libraries. A solution using the refined library might look something like

> The output you see is not generated by python.

Obviously, as running the code generates a very different output…

> It's generated by an external type checker.

I know.

But again, you didn't say that.

You said the above code "generates" this…

Maybe you've heard that by now somewhere: Words matter… ;-)

> The context is python. We're talking about python. I'm making a statement about python.

No, you made a statement about type checking. Here the full quote once again:

> The contents of a string can't be type checked and if all methods are defined this way on a class none of it can be checked.

Nothing in this statement is about Python.

All I did was just proving your words once again to be nonsense: You can statically dispatch (which involves static type checking!) just fine on strings. My (Scala) code is prove of this fact.

> There is literally nothing in my statement to indicate I'm making a general statement about type checking.

LOL. Do you actually know what you're writing? Once more:

> The contents of a string can't be type checked and if all methods are defined this way on a class none of it can be checked.

That's a general statement… It couldn't be even more general, actually.

> But I will say checking for the contents of a string is rare for a type checker to do. That is a general statement that is generally true.

Once again complete nonsense.

There are whole libraries doing more or less nothing else than handling singleton types.

Whole software layers utilize that! But I guess you never heard of static data validation…

https://github.com/Iltotore/iron

You have so little clue, but such a big mouth… That's so embarrassing.

A helpful tip: Stop spiting out maximally general claims (because these are almost always wrong!), and think about what you're actually writing.

What's in your fantasy, or what you "may have meant" is irrelevant!

> The guy made factually incorrect statements and so did you.

That's exactly what I'm talking about: You're a severe DK victim as it seems…

> It's just true that he's wrong.

No, actually you are wrong with almost every claim, like I've proven now several times. And this nonsense still didn't stop… Oh, boy!

> people shouldn't get worked up about someone else identifying a mistake.

Think about that once again. Especially in the context that it's you who is wrong here with almost everything you say.

And no, nobody is "pedantic". It only gets quite unrealistic that someone who doesn't even get banal prose straight would be able to write any code. Because the computer is actually very pedantic. And after production is on fire you can't just come to your boss and excuse yourself with "but I've meant this differently, just the stupid computer did again not understand what I've meant".

But to be honest this would actually explain:

> I've likely worked for more companies then you in the last 5 years or so due to my personality. I don't stay at one place for long.

I have some suspicions to why you don't stay anywhere for long… And yes, that would be indeed related to personality…

You might want to check out Iron.

And there is a beginner-friendly ticket: Add alias for True constraint and IronType[A, True]

Annotation is not the only way (and probably not the best IMHO) to do refined types. You might be interested in Iron in Scala 3 or Refined in Scala 2/3.

The second major version of Iron is out, featuring a complete rewrite on top of better foundations.

I love seeing whenever this is (re)posted.

This article had such a huge impact on my life and led to me creating many pieces of software[1][2][3] that were hyper-specific to myself and my needs at the time, which also later found an audience in others who think and work in ways similar to me.

[1]: https://notado.app - a "content-first" internet bookmarking and highlighting service which has been my second brain since 2020 after growing frustrated with Instapaper, Pinboard and Readwise. Eventually I expanded this to allow for RSS feed publishing on specific topics in an attempt to solve the "firehose" problem when following other peoples' bookmarks/shares, and at the end of last year I added what is now my most used feature of image generation from highlights for sharing on image-first/text-hostile social media platforms.

[2]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi - tiling window manager for Windows. There wasn't really anything fit for purpose on Windows when I started, and I was too spoiled by bspwm and yabai on Linux and macOS that I just had to write something before I could become a truly productive Windows user. I'm astonished that this now has 50k+ downloads.

[3]: https://kulli.sh - I use this to aggregate comments from HN/Reddit/Lemmy/Lobsters on an article I'm interests in in one place to read. This has helped me find some interesting niche communities on Reddit and Lemmy who share and discuss things I'm interested in that I otherwise wouldn't have found.

It's very heartening to see all of the stories here.

I've put the last few years of my life into working on komorebi, a tiling window manager for Windows[1], https://notado.app, a content-first social bookmarking service, and https://kulli.sh, a "bring your own links" comment aggregator which shows you comments from hn, reddit, lobsters, lemmy etc. on an article all in one place.

Unfortunately I was laid off after 5 years with the same company last month, and nobody seems to care about any of these projects when it comes to recruiting. There are people who use them that have reached out to me very kindly offering to make referrals, but the job market values LeetCode more than shipping real code these days.

[1]: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi

In the spirit of full disclosure, I wanted to share that throughout the changeset of this refactor which included 11 files changed, 597 insertions, and 133 deletions (full diff here), a single regression was found due to a logic error I introduced.

The two biggest tiling window manager projects for Windows are komorebi and GlazeWM. Komorebi is probably faster and more resource efficient since it is written in Rust, but I stick with Glaze for now since it has a cool status bar built in I like.

Not too many options for Windows OS, but this one looks decent: https://github.com/LGUG2Z/komorebi.

It's been a while since I last posted here. Since my last post, komorebi passed 3k stars on GitHub, became the most starred Windows twm of all time (surpassing bug.n!) and crossed 20k downloads.