New Promising Programming Language: V

Found out that there's a new programming language called V (2019). At glance it's like combination of Go and Rust. Seems really promising, has really fast compilation speed.

• No global state
• No null
• No undefined values
• Option types
• Generics
• Immutability by default
• Partially pure functions
• Hot Code Reload
• REPL
• C/C++ converter
• Native cross platform UI library
• Run Everywhere

But no compiler yet (but there's already software built with it), wait until May 2019. I hope it hype :3
Here's a bit negative review about V.

Pony (2012) also share similar belief (like Rust and Erlang/Elixir combined):

• Pony is type safe
• Pony is memory safe
• Exception-Safe
• Data-race Free
• Deadlock-Free
• Native Code
• Compatible with C
• Garbage Collected
• and many more

Zig (2017) hopefully will succeed C

• Integration with C without binding, can compile C
• Cross compile
• Generics
• Error handling and Stacktrace by default
• Compile-time reflection and compile-time code execution
• Simple build system

Crystal (2014), not giving similar spirit, but hey it's faster Ruby :3

And don't forget this interesting fib benchmark.

Free Digital Painting Software

What are our options?
Raster

• Paint.NET, supports: Windows
• Medibang Paint Pro, supports: Windows, Mac, Android, iOS
• Krita, supports: Windows, Mac, Linux, Steam
• Adobe Photoshop CS2, supports: Windows, Mac

Vector

• Inkscape, supports: Windows, Mac, Linux
• Gravit, supports: Windows, Mac, Linux, Web
• Synfig, supports: Windows, Mac, Linux
• Karbon, supports: Windows, Mac, Linux, BSD
• Vectr, supports: Web

Misc Tools

• Irfan View, supports: Windows

Bonus: Video Editing

• HitFilm Express
• Wax
• Fusion Davinci Resolve

Bonus: 3D Anime Character Creator

• VRoidStudio

Bonus: Audio Editing

• Audacity

Since I don't like GIMP, i wont put it here. For animating check this very useful site

An image from Critical Reikan for more reference:

CockroachDB 2.1.3 Benchmark

Redoing the old benchmark on my office's Mac, I have installed cockroachdb on Mac using
brew install cockroach

Start the server
cockroach start --insecure --listen-addr=localhost  

Create the database
cockroach sql --insecure
CREATE DATABASE test3;
GRANT ALL ON DATABASE test3 TO test3; 

And do the benchmark:

alias time='/usr/local/bin/gtime -f "\nCPU: %Us\tReal: %es\tRAM: %MKB"'


time go run cockroach.go lib.go

INSERT: 1.653080201s (0.17 ms/op)
UPDATE: 1.947936008s (0.19 ms/op)
SELECT: 1m44.425784366s (1.60 ms/op: 65096)


CPU: 43.20s Real: 108.71s RAM: 89072KB

The benchmark performed on i7-4770HQ, 16GB RAM, SSD harddisk, with OSX Mojave 10.14.2 under Go 1.11. Conclusion: the result is really impressive :3 Great job CockroachDB Team.