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Transducers don't really solve the same problem as async/await.

Your cited examples all make sense in the context of the article. How is a zero-click exfiltration of sensitive data vuln not "real security"? Specialists require nuanced language …

Of those, scrypt or argon2id. PBKDF2 is for FIPS compliance.

At a basic level any Lisp-like with an editor integrated REPL lets you put your cursor over the `greet` invocation below and evaluate it, and have the results shown in the manner o…

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I agree. It's career-driven bullshit bingo. It gives junior's an opportunity to gain an advantage over senior's ("Oh you don't know JavaScript micro-framework 2025 #10?") and every…

WebSockets are often blocked by corporate firewalls/proxies, I don't think it's as simple as saying WebSocket > HTTP

Strong types are not orthogonal to dynamic types, but I'll assume you're referring to static typing instead. My opinion on this is static type systems are great and provide amazing…

Based on the averages, a DSL is going to suck and be a curse upon your future self/maintainers. You provided a Clojure alternative, but without using the precise feature designed t…

Structural editing and editor-REPL integration

- Dynamic languages are good, actually. IDE auto-completion and full-project renaming are the features that hit above their weight when using static type systems. IMO the remaining…

- 90% of abstraction is dreadful. That means _your_ particular abstraction is almost certainly bad, and we don't want to learn it. - There is a lack of respect for the history of p…