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   VR-T8X15 (Artemis) (vr-t8x15@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:16:08 JST VR-T8X15 (Artemis)
   everyone i've seen on fedi largely aligns with my most important software opinions
   - GPL good
   - JS bad
   - tech bros are idiots
   - we gotta code better than this
   
   it may be time to expose my eldritch, cursed coding takes to the world
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:17:21 JST Sick Sun

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     @vr-t8x15 you can write decent js if you're disciplined.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:18:21 JST Sick Sun

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     @vr-t8x15 they're bad at it. I'm good at it. Although I prefer to program in Elixir these days.
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     VR-T8X15 (Artemis) (vr-t8x15@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:18:22 JST VR-T8X15 (Artemis)

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     @sun explains why writing JS is popular among masochists
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:36:20 JST Sick Sun

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     @vr-t8x15 I highly recommend finding something because I believe the language really needs working hard with it to learn it well, book-learning didn't help me as much. I'm currently writing a Fediverse bot that can do a variety of tasks, written in Elixir. It's very challenging but also very rewarding.
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     VR-T8X15 (Artemis) (vr-t8x15@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 03:36:22 JST VR-T8X15 (Artemis)

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     @sun elixir seems really fucking cool. i love the syntax and pure functional is hard to find these days. just wish i had a project that would justify me using it to its fullest potential
     
     maybe a source forge?
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:04:29 JST Sick Sun

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     @lispi314 @vr-t8x15 some languages are worse than others and I contend that JavaScript is in the middle somewhere.
     
     PHP also can be written better these days but it's worse than JS and I won't touch it. JS and PHP are similar in that, there are decades of old code in that language that are intolerably poorly written
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:04:31 JST LisPi

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     @sun @vr-t8x15 That's like saying you can write good C++ if you're disciplined.
     
     Sure, technically you can. But it's a losing battle at the best of times and the first moment of flagging attention as you get slightly drowsy fucks it all up.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:06:17 JST LisPi

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     @sun @vr-t8x15 Erlang-style message-passing first does take some getting used to.
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:10:05 JST LisPi

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     @sun @vr-t8x15 Yeah, leaning some PHP for a potential job had me gawking at the sheer inconsistency and ill thought-out nonsense that's just considered normal with it.
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:20:17 JST Sick Sun

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     @vr-t8x15 @lispi314 I think C++ is way worse personally, I feel like it consistently violates the principle of least astonishment and has made learning "not fun".
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     VR-T8X15 (Artemis) (vr-t8x15@social.xenofem.me)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:20:18 JST VR-T8X15 (Artemis)

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     @lispi314 @sun this is the second time C++ has been brought up as being comparably bad to javascript today for me
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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:25:36 JST Sick Sun

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     @jeff @lispi314 @vr-t8x15 what decent alternatives are there for high performance high level programming that will work on a microcontroller
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     jaf (jeff@mk.magicka.org)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:25:37 JST jaf

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     @sun@shitposter.world @vr-t8x15@social.xenofem.me @lispi314@udongein.xyz c++ is not meant to be fun it's a language older than i am with a bunch of unbreakable promises that they can't afford to break which make lots of qol language features impossible to add, like abi backwards compat vs multiple return values.

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     Sick Sun (sun@shitposter.world)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:29:24 JST Sick Sun

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     @lispi314 @jeff @vr-t8x15 https://pico-doc.synack.me/ neat!
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     LisPi (lispi314@udongein.xyz)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:29:25 JST LisPi

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     @sun @vr-t8x15 @jeff Ada/SPARK, namely.
     
     If the manufacturers aren't assholes preventing tooling from being made.
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     feld (feld@bikeshed.party)'s status on Thursday, 11-Jul-2024 04:32:54 JST feld

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     @vr-t8x15 @sun if you're interested in that you should pick this up and bring it back to life
     
     https://github.com/redrabbit/git.limo
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