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SVG is still a stupid format. Who wants to send image data through XML? It would be like sending a raster image through a big JSON array.

String s = null; That's not possible with nullable types. The whole point of nullable types is to mark types that can be null. So this is possible: String? s = null; But now it's n…

>There are two main solutions: Use an option or maybe type or Use a nullable type I don't get it. These are literally all exactly the same thing, all slightly varying in ergonomics…

When I click a link, I want to know where I'm going. Where do you think "arewesmoothyet.com" will take you? If you guessed some Mozilla related thing purely from context, well you'…

Well "next_ptr" is also a bad name, I agree, but I'm trying to name it something that indicates "this is a pointer to the 'next' pointer in the linked list".

What a waste of domain space (yes, I know they're abundant, but still.) areweaudioyet.com says nothing about its contents. areweasyncyet.rs had the right idea with the .rs domain n…

The top pattern is extremely common so comments are somewhat unnecessary since everyone would know what you're doing. In the second one, comments would be less necessary with a typ…

auto in function signatures is just really, really stupid.

I'm not so sure about that. Surely it would take longer to parse both branches of an if-constexpr then it would for the preprocessor to see the #if and discard half of it.

I wish more languages gave us a "|>" operator. Too many languages settle with dot notation, which confuses encapsulation/method calling with syntactical convenience.

I remember implementing the comment collapsing thing without JS, you have the "[-]" be a label for a checkbox button, and then you just use CSS to hide the sections for which the c…

That's true, it's more like naming your language "BlockchainScript". I could totally see someone doing that today.

Oh come on, don't be pedantic. There is a term for non-physically-based rendered, it's called "rasterization". Just because it's technically incorrect doesn't mean it's any less of…

Agreed. It's not a "foreign" function if everything is in WASM. All the VM sees is WASM code; it doesn't make a difference if it was originally written in C or Rust.

Ok.

hCaptcha works on Tor, sometimes.

Have you ever seen a procedural language with a good REPL? Python maybe, but definitely no compiled procedural garbage-collectorless language. The "needing to put type signatures" …

You mean like a REPL? Most languages are unusable for interactive programming. And it's not a downside if it stops use in a domain that was nobody's goal.

Threes made the fatal mistake of charging money on the App Store.

One ugly trick for unreachable branches is this: assert(!"You gave an invalid letter"); The string literal is a pointer, so !pointer is false. And then you get a nice explanation m…

I would recommend not doing that. Just use the initializer syntax, or write an inline function.

-Wimplicit, UBSan, ASan,... The idea that "you can't write safe C" is a big joke. C is as safe as you make it.

I have never seen a well-made but general solution beat a well-made and specific solution for one problem, in complexity or run time, ever. This is very true with allocators. A lot…