I think there's a pretty good rule of thumb in modern systems-ish language design: If Go and Rust and Zig all do a certain thing, that thing is probably a great idea.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34835631#348386135925
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[ISO C++ Direction Group opinion:] Rust, originally from Mozilla, built on top of C++, became the poster child of a safe browser language.
open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2023/...4922
One of the most eye-opening experiences I had as a new grad was sitting near to Bjarne Stroustrup during the OOPSLA 2006 keynote (? It’s been a long time), while 2000-or-so co-attendees repeatedly booed & hissed at him every time C++ was mentioned.
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Polymorphism in C is trivial: You use a vtable - a struct of method pointers ... return ((int (*)(void *))((object *)self)->class->vtable[STRING_LENGTH_SLOT])(self);
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3429813519038
Go is not statically typed, really. Consider using Haskell, if not Agda.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=342308849423
when dealing with high level languages, the speed difference between loops and [string] equality operations is such that for all practical purposes the equality opeation can be considered to be O(1).
neil.fraser.name/writing/diff/6538
tl;dr = Why not just write a Lisp that compiles to Zig?
reddit.com/r/lisp/comments/zosu50/lisp_for_un...3810
class Gender\Gender { const int IS_FEMALE = 70; const int IS_MOSTLY_FEMALE = 102; ... const int BRITAIN = 1; const int IRELAND = 2; const int USA = 3;
php.net/manual/en/class.gender.php19046
Haskell is the greatest programming language of all time ... the rational adult in a room full of children ... When I program in Haskell, I am in utopia. I am in a different world than 99.9% of what I see posted on Reddit.
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One thing that is common to many people arguing is that they actually never bothered to read SIGPLAN, or CS type systems.
news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30046053#300703745019
who cares about boilerplate code? always use auto-generation, don't write getter setter by your hand,
reddit.com/r/java/comments/rrlwi7/why_everyon...8632