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Fun is not measured objectively. Different people find different things fun. I enjoy writing code very much (in addition to solving big problems; one can enjoy both).

> And that's on you. Sorry I have to defend my pride here a little bit. When I joined my previous company, the entire company was on Java 8. When I left every app in every team the…

Yeah javac is pretty great. I was doing Kotlin for some time and I was getting very annoying by how much slower and slower running tests and doing full builds became. I thought it …

I mean, what is old? How far along are frameworks these days, and what are companies using? That team was using Java 17. Java 21 was just released and frameworks had no meaningful …

> * No typosquatting issues because every package has a group id verified by real humans and DNS TXT records. While I think this is a huge boon, have you ever published a package o…

Kotlin coroutines don't really exist. They're a (very neat) programming trick to support coroutine-like behavior on the JVM which doesn't support coroutines. If you look at the byt…

I think there is something to say for compiling to native code, having binaries in the ~25 MiB range, being able to run in distroless containers, being able to run a web applicatio…

> It performs better than Go Do you have some sources or experiences to share on this topic? I'm very curious. My experience is the complete opposite. At my previous job there was …

What do you mean by "better than Go for industry purposes"? I don't understand what "industry purposes" means and in what aspects Java is better than Go in your opinion (I can thin…

Reddit didn't (yet). Another tech focused community site did though... So I stopped participating in the community.

You can build quite an extensive profile of someone given enough post history. More post history means more details. Especially nowadays with LLMs it's trivial. This can lead to al…

On Reddit and Hacker News, I don't need an email address to sign up. But also I use SimpleLogin to have a separate email address per website/account. Quite necessary these days whe…

Thanks, I was not aware. They seem to be guidelines, and not rules. I find my privacy and the prevention of anyone to build a full profile of me (especially how easy that is now in…

I rotate accounts on "social media" (mostly Reddit and Hacker News, the others don't interest me) every few weeks or months to make sure not too much of my post history accumulates…

I cannot identify with this at all. We have Python and Go applications in production, and for Go the vibe is mostly "standard library plus a few dependencies" (e.g. SQL driver, ope…

Why the hate though? Is someone forcing you to use them against your will? If you need 128 bits of crypto.Rand() for your usecase, you can just use that right?

Can you explain it for those out of the loop?

If this is to be a real, (relatively) widely-used language, I would make some tough choices on where to innovate, and where to just leave things the same. One thing I noticed in th…

Noticed the part where the exact instructions from the Readme were followed and it didn't work?

Good for you. But there are already so, so many posts and threads celebrating all of this. Everyone is different. Some of us enjoy the activity of programming by hand. This thread …

Thanks, ChatGPT.

I think this is a strange, and honestly worrying, stance. Just because there are worse problems, doesn't mean we shouldn't care about less-worse problems (this is a logical fallacy…