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Editions allow making breaking changes to Rust without splitting the ecosystem - no hassle caused to existing code unless it opts into the new edition and its breaking changes. The…

Java's arrays use a signed 32-bit int as their length, so the longest they can be is about 2 billion elements. If your code has arrays over a billion elements, then it will fall ov…

The no-gil fork of Python makes the builtin collections thread-safe, so that will remain not an issue (see the "Collection thread-safety" section of the design doc https://docs.goo…

Sidenote: this website performs poorly on Firefox for Android; every time the background updates, the page freezes for a second, so scrolling is jumpy

Does your suggestion allow passing an extra argument into any of those functions? Like the value |> someFunction(1, %, 3)

You can feel secure knowing if you lost your job, any other job you find would at worst pay $2.26 less than you're receiving now, so you wouldn't suffer an awful drop in living sta…

The reason you get warned for doing `logger.debug("Got %s results", num)` instead of `logger.debug("Got {} results".format(num))` is that in the first case, internally it checks if…

You could also override the font-family of the main to make it more readable; since it isn't code there's no need to use a monospace font. body code { font-family: sans-serif; }

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In some ways yes, Java is not so strongly typed; a statically-typed language can be weakly typed. See C where ints, pointers, floats, and bools can almost all coerce into each othe…

As the article says, they examined lots of languages, not just Kotlin (it would be arbitrary to confine their research to JVM languages..) >> While Java could not adopt the Swift a…

> can you provide links that show most js developers use typescript? They didn't say most developers had switched, they said most large projects have switched

Where did you get the idea that records can't use annotations, have methods, or implement interfaces?: "Beyond the restrictions above, records behave like normal classes: they can …