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Dane checking in. You know when you read a newspaper article on something you happen to know about and it's just hilariously wrong? Like, to the point of making you wonder if they'…

Leo Africanus by Amin Maalouf -- I was approached in an airport by a lovely old gentleman who essentially told me to read this book and insisted I take a photo of it so I wouldn't …

Oh cool! I need help curing my addiction and I'm optimistic that this would do it for me. I'm only half joking.

Not GP, but same story for me (except it's been more than a year now for me). I'm coding 90% in Rust. The remaining 10% is a good mix of OCaml, TS, Python, Shell. It doesn't really…

Yes. It requires that `if else` can be used as expressions, which for some reason in most languages that can not. In the beginning of doing Rust I was missing the ternary operator,…

Yes, Ada. Maybe. I will have to look at it. The rest all are missing basic things. Like, I love TS, but it's absolutely bonkers because js is js. I once worked on a 250k loc projec…

It has no adts at all. Like I'm reading blog posts right now about how to do what should be the simplest thing enum Foo { A(String), B(i32), } And it's.. not simple. And even if yo…

I've used Go for almost two years on a side project and its type system is exactly why I'm doing Rust now. In my book, it is not okay that I add a new field to a struct and then no…

You can? Imperative, strong type system (no null, adts), reasonably fast, compiles to a single binary. I'm genuinely interested.

I'm in a fourth category. I just want a simple imperative language with a solid type system that is reasonably fast. While Rust isn't simple, I don't know any other languages that …

I can. I work on a ~20k loc Python service as well as a ~10k loc Rust service. The Rust service is only half the size, but the problem space is many times more complex. Whenever I …

I don't necessarily agree that Python overall is difficult to read, but one thing that seems to get my every time is the foo = x if y else z

Mine does. Still picked Rust, and so happy I did. The type system alone does it for me.

Instead of qwerty?? Never even considered that a possibility. I also don't remap anything. It's fiiine. You'll get used to it :-)

Helix is awesome. Thank you for doing this!

No. And I hope there never will be. It's a different editor with its own ideas about how modal editing should be done. It does not sound like that has your interest. That's fine. S…

I did this in February after 20 years in Vim. Haven't opened vim since. Happy coding my friend :)

I got you. Put this in your ~/.config/helix/config.toml. theme = "bogster" Or type `:theme` and use tab to cycle through the themes (it'll apply the theme to the current file while…

I've used Helix since February, and vim for 20 years prior. For basic edits it's roughly on par now for me (maybe a bit slower?); but then Helix has really neat tree-sitter integra…

Good question, and I don't think my answer will satisfy your needs, but it does mine. The only long form text that I ever write is in markdown. I do miss the `gq` command from vim,…

Don't even try to reconfigure them. Try to learn the editor first as it is. If you think that's crazy-talk, then imagine someone saying they'd like to learn vim, but they find it h…

After 20 years of vim I decided to try out Helix back in Feb and never looked back, so I guess I can chime in here. Sure, it took a few days (maybe weeks?) of feeling uncomfortable…

I opened helix to check it for you. Pressed `g` and had a little popup tell me that following with `h` = line start, `l` = line end, `s` first non-blank in line (plus ~15 other opt…

I live (and bike) here too. I think what you mean to say is that it can feel kind of hectic and dangerous to step out of a bus onto the bike lane. I can promise you that every bike…

In every company I have worked in on the frontend, this is the answer. "We need to increase x" comes down from somewhere, and then everyone attempts to find a good way to measure i…