Betteridge’s law of headlines…

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

What does Rust improve over its predecessor? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.

beer ~ piss

wine ~ rotten blood

coffee ~ diarrhea

raw meat (tartar steak, etc) ~ used chewing gum picked from a pavement

dark salami ~ rotting corpse

vinegar ~ battery acid

moldy cheese ~ moldy cheese

Nim

Not if the language is standardized from the start.

An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

This one is interesting:

https://www.bps.org.uk/psychologist/me-and-monotropism-unified-theory-autism

The only mention of capitalism in the article is specifically venture capitalism.

I think “uniform function call syntax” is the established term for this particular feature.

That’s true, but if the transformations have more than one argument, they go after the name:

data.split(",").join(";")

as opposed to concatenative programming languages, where all arguments go before the name and there’s no visual indication of the structure:

data "," split ";" join

Also, there are more languages with this feature, for example D, VimScript or Koka.

Re the sidebar: How are Nim and Roc partially concatenative?

JavaScript is an example of how OOP can be done without classes (before they were added to appease Java enthusiasts).

Each request is a totally independent request that rebuilds the world. There’s no shared state (unless you want there to be).

I with there was a language with this model, but without the language itself being completely garbage.