Personal life
Another boring week. I finished "Hunger" and started "Lies". Like the other two books, it's not that deep, but I started to care for a couple of characters, so I'm curious to see how the book goes. This third book is also interesting also because "religion" is the main theme: different views on faith fighting each other… I've always been fascinated with the concept, even if my "rational" mind refuses any sort of faith. I'm still resonate with Jiddu Krishnamurti when he said:
I maintain that truth is a pathless land, and you cannot approach it by any path whatsoever, by any religion, by any sect. That is my point of view, and I adhere to that absolutely and unconditionally. Truth, being limitless, unconditioned, unapproachable by any path whatsoever, cannot be organized; nor should any organization be formed to lead or coerce people along a particular path. …This is no magnificent deed, because I do not want followers, and I mean this. The moment you follow someone you cease to follow Truth.
Truth is a process, not a goal.
Code
Clojure still amazes me, even after more than ten years: the community continues to produce wonderful stuff… It's inspirational.
I gave up on Rust; I have no use at the moment for low-level code. And even if I need some, I think I'll take a look at Zig.
I'd like to try again with music frameworks like TidalCycle or Overtone.
I've been following the Helix editor for a while now; I like the Kakoune modal editing philosophy, and I'm really excited by its plugin system based on Steel (a Scheme interpreter written in Rust). There are some people against this decision, and I expressed myself in the discussion on Github: