The Cavern Of Cobol is an active place at the Something Awful forums, I’ve found it a great resource.

Scala is the the first I used and I like it a lot. If I had more time I’d love to give ocaml a decent try but I don’t think I can get into it these days.

I remember playing around with this, never went deep with it but appreciate the project. I really wish more languages had alternative syntax options like this. I’ll give Hy another shot this weekend.

I am still confused how to understand the results about programming language. Desired vs Admired? One means you use it, one means you want to?

Co-recursive is excellent, I enjoy it a lot

I didn’t see the diff command last time, thanks for that. It still feels like a miss for fossil to host a web view and forum but not a pull request-like section.

I checked out fossil once and looks like it doesn’t have an equivalent to Pull Request so I moved on. It wasn’t clear how anyone could begin to be a contributor to a project if I host on fossil.

Execute program is another online learning tool that teaches SQL. I have used it for typescript lessons and like it a lot.

OpenAPI is pretty great. At my last job, we had a code generator to build part of the backend based on OpenAPI spec file, so we always knew the spec was accurate, couldn’t have routes or parameters that weren’t in the spec.

OpenAPI has been around for donkeys years

Lol wut

I like DHH, I’m glad the less-used tools have an advocate in him. There is a trend to winner-takes-all in software, it’s great when other systems/approaches are championed. I think DHH did a good job of explaining why moving out of the cloud worked for his situation and not others. I think he did a worse job explaining why moving to JS and away from TS is good for him. But he was upfront that it’s mostly a personal/subjective choice. He could have handled the transition better, but I think the destination they got to was fine.

It was super slow to join a chat. Also, scroll back history was always buggy, it would tell me I wasn’t allowed to see chats from the day before when I’ve been logged in for days. Room search is slow. I didn’t like having to do security keys when I logged in to clients on different computers. The encryption stuff never seemed worth it when 99% of the time in in a public room. Death by a thousand cuts is how it felt.

I did find it more responsive when I used the main matrix network, but I wanted to be on am offshoot and federate on, it always felt slow and painful.

Any of the xmpp communities open? I’ve tried matrix for chat and it’s kinda janky, I wouldn’t mind trying an xmpp server.

Hi fedi-people! I’m not an active rust person but I feel like the way things are going I will be in the near future. Keep strong y’all, wishing you well :)