LazyVim for Ambitious Developers: Ebook Now Available!
Hi everyone,
The long-awaited LazyVim for Ambitious Developers e-book is now available! You can purchase it through Payhip here:
https://payhip.com/b/zEZoeThe minimum price is set at $8.00 USD. I feel the content is fairly worth $30.00 USD (comparing it to ebook prices for other comprehensive Vim books). As always, however, I leave you to value it as you see fit.
The entire book will always be available for free to read online. I will also try to get it into various ebook stores. I chose not to use a distribution network that does this automatically, so I will have to upload to Google and Apple directly.
The proof for the print edition should be hitting the printers sometime in the next couple days and then I need to wait for it to be mailed from the UK. My previous experience has always been that there were at least two rounds of proofs required. But here’s hoping (🤞🏼) that said previous experience means I will have gotten it right this time!
I’m expecting the print edition to be available in mid-September now. I apologize for the slipping target date, but I’m pretty proud that it’s within the same month I’ve been guiding towards since March!
This week’s unrelated project: For some reason, I’m building a compiler written in Gleam to transpile Gleam to Python. I have no idea why I started this, but it’s been fun and is going well. I didn’t write blog articles about it (though the knowledge I gained from writing the Roc Compiler series has been very helpful), but if anyone is interested in some comprehensive Gleam code, have a look: https://github.com/dusty-phillips/macabre
I enjoy Gleam about equally to Roc. They are quite similar semantically. Syntactically, Gleam has more curly braces and has less type inference than Roc. Gleam compiles to Javascript and Beam runtimes (and now Python 😈) while Roc compiles to native. Gleam’s primary advantage is that it is more mature with access to a larger ecosystem. It will be interesting to see how Roc compares as it continues to be developed.
Cheers,
Dusty