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1. Csepp 🌢 (csepp@merveilles.town)'s status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 12:29:22 JST Csepp 🌢

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   • jbauer

   @jbauer What's your goal with the programs you write?
   My experience has been that debugging "clever" code in languages like C often detracts from the joy of solving the original problem, and writing horrible/clever code is a separate kind of fun.
   FWIW, reliable C code feels to me much more rigid than reliable Rust code, maybe because all the rigidity has to live in your head instead of in the type checker.

   • jbauer@merveilles.town's status on Sunday, 12-Mar-2023 12:29:23 JST jbauer

     I am very much drawn to languages that have minimal structure

     Things like C, Perl, Forth, Shell, JavaScript, etc. are all way more fun to me because it feels like they let me write programs in a unique and playful way, as opposed to the rigidity that I feel when writing in Python or Go.

     Adrian Cochrane repeated this.