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You're arguing for charitable interpretations of statements by people who claimed Go didn't need generics or even that Go was better without them, saying that one should be able to…

This was actually more challenging to respond to than I thought it would be. In Go (as the blog post that I linked alludes to): "The convention in the Go libraries is that even whe…

I'm not a native English speaker, so I had to look up a definition of disingenuous to make sure I didn't misunderstand you. I promise you I'm trying to be candid with my own opinio…

I would offer the same criticism of them, as it's the behavior in general that I don't prefer. But of course it's perfectly fine to disagree, this is all about preferences. I like …

I am not a Go expert so please correct me if I'm wrong, but... The fact that the stdlib HTTP utils in Go recover from panics in handlers and provide no way of changing this via eas…

This does seem very interesting, at first glance. One thought: > These “scoped life-time” reference counts are used by the C++ shared_ptr⟨T⟩(calling the destructor at the end of th…

That is actively ongoing work: https://blog.rust-lang.org/2020/08/18/laying-the-foundation-...

Edit: As varbhat has edited their post to clarify that they indeed did not mean to say backing in an adversarial way, my post can be ignored or just read as my understanding of the…

I recently "closed" 12000+ (not a typo) tabs in one of my Firefox profiles into OneTab. In another profile I have 30+ different windows open for different projects and contexts, an…

Yours is an excellent comment, factual and even handed. As someone who had to delve into these things and had to implement e.g. a variant of MultiPaxos for work (this was before Ra…

Yeah, I'm not really plugged into the community that well but I think reasonml.org is the long term plan and that some sort of transition might be going on? I've mostly used reason…

> React developers do not understand functional programming As some sibling comments note, this is not a fair conclusion to draw. And not that it disproves your statement, but Reac…

Oh, wow. I stumbled over the thread just the other day and mechanically just read the month and day... Since it was November I somehow assumed it was recent without reacting. Thank…

Yes, there are a lot of us out there who use Signal and have this single missing feature as our largest pain point. My previous phone (iOS) would have been donated or sold to someo…

Do you mean to say that you think that the OpenSSL project feeling obliged to implement the heartbeat extension created by a standards body is significantly more to blame for causi…

I really think that's an oversimplification. There are always the pro and con arguments about software mono culture and there are good points on both sides, and in this case there …

I am a paying Spotify customer since 2010 or so and have also spent countless hours developing software for personal use integrating with Spotify. I've used e.g. their old (now dep…

Superb and very enjoyable writeup! The kind that makes you sit down in a comfy chair with a cup of hot chocolate and enjoy a good read. Kudos for both the engineering and the write…

I’ll add to all the examples in this thread that the Rust (also partly of ML descent) compiler was written in OCaml until it became self hosting. I’ll also +1 the comments about Re…

Ha, that was a superb answer, thanks! :D I'll be checking that site! I know you may not have your fingers in this particular flower pot, so the "you" was directed at the entire Rus…

I'm waiting eagerly too, thanks for all the hard work you do! I read somewhere in all the discussions that Carl was hesitant to go all-in on futures 0.3 (those are definitely landi…

You remember correctly. This is present in "A fire upon the deep" by Vinge, which is one of the best sci-fi books I have read (although I am not particularly well read). Really, th…

I like that line of thinking. When discussing the suitability of different programming languages I always point to the problem at hand and identifying the abstraction level the pro…

Yeah, the difference in pressure required is a huge part of it! I feel that a lot with gel pens. I also really love the clear, legible lines. Interesting about your moving on to a …

I went through so many years without bothering to find out why I hated some pens and loved some pens, until I decided to dive into the subject a bit. The type of ink and pen affect…