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I wanted to like Reason, but it is now clearly a dead end. Its torn identity between JS and OCaml has killed the language.

Imagine believing this

Spoken like a bootcamp luddite

Because it lowers the housing stock in urban areas. Wealthy travellers will pay more for accommodations than the local market, so apartments become airbnbs and investors gobble up …

Airbnb was supposed to be a platform for sharing your house, not starting your own distributed hotel.

Probably

The corporate structure institutionalizes immorality, it cannot be avoided. By law shareholder profits come first, everything else is secondary to that goal.

The person filing the paperwork still isn’t necessarily the one who made the call. In fact, it usually isn’t; they are just the ones whose responsibility it is to carry it out, or …

It is my experience that everyone who self identifies as a republican or democrat is brainwashed at this point. The worst offenders are those who are so delusional that they mock a…

Investment is gambling, smarts are winning.

can we get compile time constant variables? something cleaner than enums and defines

That excludes a huge number of students who will have never had the experience to try programming before university. I never did any programming before my first year, I was plannin…

This is only true if your applications are mostly high level glue.

But it is. A good compiler could unroll my loop and rewrite it with the appropriate vector ops. But that isn’t possible with just python right now.

Damn you’re edgy

This is a pretty pedantic definition. Plenty of excellent programmers are not mathematicians. How would that work if programming were just math? That’s like saying physics is just …

Go succeeded because it was largely ignored by Google. Dart was the darling language which flipped miserably and has only recently became relevant.

They are proven with with math, but their implementation in code certainly isn’t. If it were that simple, we would be using languages like Coq and TLA+ for writing software. But we…

I think only academics with a background in CS will typically be familiar with functional programming. For everyone else, they will have used something simpler like Excel, C, R, Py…

This is actually one of the most frustrating parts about using python. You can’t write normal python code that performs well. Instead you have to use the numpy dsl, which I often f…

My analogy was to compare wood and vinyl as building materials for flooring (I guess I omitted that) and asking if the existence of something newer invalidates something older. I a…

Julia is similar to matlab by design, which makes it easier for science and engineering folks who are already familiar with it. I think functional programming advocates underrate s…

Why does a language need changes to be alive? We don’t ship languages, we ship code written in them. It’s like claiming wood is dead because we have vinyl.

At what point is enough enough?