The hate and down votes are not for having an opinion on the language, they are for self-righteously proclaiming that opinion in inappropriate places. Someone sharing a cool project they made is not the place to start gatekeeping their choice of tech. That’s just being an asshole.

This is close, but as someone already said, an index into a list just means you are mutating the list.

Your stable “identifier” needs to be a function, ie. a reused design pattern. Compared to the list, this would be an index function which gets an element from an arbitrary list, meaning you don’t have to mutate your list anymore, you just build a new one which still works with your function.

This is why languages which avoid mutation and side effects are always (to my knowledge) functional languages.

Did Codeberg do something/take some stance to attract the attention of the far right? It feels like such an arbitrary target?

He is like tony stark in a timeline where Tony stark decided to join the terrorists instead of building the suit to escape. Oh and in this timeline Tony Starks brain has been rotted away by ketamine

But what is it in reference to? What’s the “infamous if loop”?

Some say it skips a generation. Your kinks are a combination of your grandmother’s kinks.

The second syntax isn’t actually enums at all, it’s closer to a union type definition. You can’t even define enum Colour = Red | Green | Blue using your second syntax.

Forth is fairly different AFAIK. If you want a “Forth style” language for general purpose, with more “batteries included”, try Factor! It’s a really nice language.

Surely “compiled” Vs “scripting” langs is better than throwing around (at best) meaningless terms like “real”

Mostly the ownership model, trying to remember which functions expect borrowed types or not, etc.

The error messages in rust are really good, so I can usually make the code work quickly, but I need to properly understand the reason behind the error in order to learn, so that’s when I get headaches

Rust is definitely a really cool language (as someone who has played with it just a little) but it’s quite headache inducing, at least for me at the moment.

Ah yes, dismissing research before it even exists, based on personal belief. What a healthy attitude.

You can be mad at both. Those in power should be changing the system to make it better and more fair, but they are not. That deserves anger. But while we are stuck with the existing system, and while the results of the system have serious consequences, then refusing to participate (and voting 3rd party in such a system is refusing to participate) means allowing the serious consequences to occur, and therefore also deserves anger.

It’s almost exactly the classic trolley problem. Voting democrat means pulling the lever: you cause some harm, but far less harm than if the trolley had not been diverted. Voting 3rd party is the equivalent to not pulling the lever, allowing much greater harm while feeling morally “clean” for not having caused it yourself.

MQTT is great! There are clients available in Python, JS, etc

I was trying to rank up in Codewars, and there was a 1kyu (hardest and worth the most points) kata only available in OCaml, so I learned it in order to solve.