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sqlite
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Understanding SQL vs. NoSQL Databases: A Beginner's Guide
SQL (Structured Query Language) databases are relational databases. They organize data into tables with rows and columns, and they use SQL for querying and managing data. Examples include MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.
- Ask HN: Tips to get started on my own server
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How to choose the right type of database
SQLite: A lightweight, self-contained SQL database, best for standalone applications, embedded systems, or small-scale applications not requiring a client/server DBMS.
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NoSQL Postgres: Add MongoDB compatibility to your Supabase projects with FerretDB
FerretDB is an open source document database that adds MongoDB compatibility to other database backends, such as Postgres and SQLite. By using FerretDB, developers can access familiar MongoDB features and tools using the same syntax and commands for many of their use cases.
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Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
Rust stdlib code is quite high quality although not particularly dense due to large amount of comments. Start from the docs, and click any source link: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/vec/struct.Vec.html
Sqlite is supposedly high quality C code: https://github.com/smparkes/sqlite
For videos of someone (Casey Muratori) writing video game code and debugging it, Handmade Hero: https://handmadehero.org/
A blog post about how to write code by the same author: https://caseymuratori.com/blog_0015
For how to implement a fairly advanced type system, Typing Haskell in Haskell: https://gist.github.com/chrisdone/0075a16b32bfd4f62b7b
But, honestly, you're probably better off writing code yourself and learning by doing.
kakoune
- Multi-cursor code editing: An animated introduction
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Helix: Release 24.03 Highlights
Helix's modal editing is based on Kakoune's modal editing which is like an evolution to Vim's modal editing. You can think of it as being always in selection (visual) mode. https://github.com/mawww/kakoune?tab=readme-ov-file#selectio...
- Kakoune
- Kakoune Code Editor
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A tutorial for the Sam command language (1986) [pdf]
And while it doesn’t use the sam language precisely, I think in the broader “postfix Vi with visual feedback” category Kakoune[1] also warrants mentioning. The command language, in my experience, feels much more logical than that of Vis coming from a blank slate (things might be different if you come from Vim, but even when I used Vim regularly I never used the editing language that much exactly because I could never remember the damn thing).
And having mentioned Kakoune it’d probably be unfair to then not mention Helix[2]. It has a very similar editing language, but it’s a fairly anti-Unix everything-bolted-in affair on the inside (“everything works out of the box” being the advertising take) compared to Kakoune’s Acme-inspired no-scripting scripting (there’s an ex-style command to exec a user program that can then drive the editor over stdio RPC, a set of hooks, and that’s it). So if you’ve come for the Plan 9 feels, I don’t expect Helix to be that appealing. It’s still a good editor, nevertheless.
[1] https://kakoune.org/
[2] https://helix-editor.com/
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What is the best book for complete beginner?
You can take a look at kakoune. The source code (excluding documentations, test cases, customizations etc.) is less than 40k. It is, IMHO, a show case of a C++ project in use.
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Why Kakoune
> I wonder if the author has ever heard of vis[0]
Yes.
https://github.com/martanne/vis/wiki/Differences-from-Kakoun...
https://github.com/mawww/kakoune/wiki#onboarding
> which imho fulfills far better each one of those premises
Not very motivated for such a harsh critic..
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Understanding the Origins and the Evolution of Vi and Vim
I've been using Vim for years, but if there was one thing I could change, it would be the verb-noun order. The Kakoune[1] editor behaves mostly like Vim, but where Vim has `dw` as "delete word", Kakoune has it backwards: `wd`.
It might sound minor, but by placing the range first, Kakoune can give a preview of what will be changed. The longer or more complicated the command, the more this feature shines.
Strictly better as far as I know. A shame my muscle memory, and all default installations, are still stuck with Vim.
[1] https://kakoune.org/
- Ask HN: Where do I find good code to read?
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Helix editor: Make HTTP requests and insert JSON
Helix is a postmodern text editor built in Rust built for the terminal. It is inspired by Kakoune, another Rust based text editor. Helix has got multiple selections, built-in Tree-sitter integration, powerful code manipulation and Language server support.
What are some alternatives?
Refactoring-Summary - Summary of "Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code" by Martin Fowler
helix - A post-modern modal text editor.
clara-rules - Forward-chaining rules in Clojure(Script)
micro-editor - A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor
clean-code - Book review: A Handbook of Agile Software Craftsmanship
vis - A vi-like editor based on Plan 9's structural regular expressions
The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run - Stolen (and slightly cleaned up) version of The Simpsons: Hit & Run original source code from 2003
Yuescript - A Moonscript dialect compiles to Lua.
pytudes - Python programs, usually short, of considerable difficulty, to perfect particular skills.
doom-emacs - An Emacs framework for the stubborn martian hacker [Moved to: https://github.com/doomemacs/doomemacs]
retlang
neovim - Vim-fork focused on extensibility and usability