Notices by NEETzsche (neetzsche@iddqd.social), page 13

It doesn’t take long to learn new languages, but it does take long to reimplement extant projects in new languages from scratch, which is usually pointless unless you’re doing something that the old language can’t do at all. If you insist on dropping everything to chase the new meme language every couple years you’re not a polyglot, you’re a retard.

Rust is a meme language. I don’t need an excuse to not learn it. I’m likely going to be starting a new project for work and I’m going to be picking out new language/framework, so I’m going to be looking at Rust more seriously soon.

But it’s a meme language. Basically anything that isn’t C, Python, or .NET is a meme language at this point. Ruby is a meme language and I love it. Elixir is even more of a meme language and I’ve found it nice to work with, although I’m not very good in it yet.

>decoding performance

I’m not learning a statically-typed language to manipulate strings for marginal “decoding performance” when, in practice, anything that relies on heavy string manipulation isn’t about processing it fast, but about processing it right.

If you’re comparing it to C, or even other languages like Go or Elixir, Ruby is pretty clunky no matter what. However, as far as really effective API string manipulation songs and dances, it really can’t be beat in terms of code elegance. I keep insisting on using the right tool for the job, and if it’s JSON sperging then the buck stops at Ruby.

But again, if you have to do any real number crunching, just skip all of these scripting languages outright. Skip Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Lua, fuck all of that

Isn’t Rust statically typed? That’s consistently trash for webshitting.

>it’s not problem

Bro I’m in a thread where people are coping about how Elixir can’t handle JSON-LD shit and that the issue isn’t Elixir, but JSON-LD. I realize it’s a combination of you and Moon and neither of you are doing all of this, but the facts on the ground are that these more mature scripting languages still stand on top of things like Rust, Go, or Elixir, and this is coming from someone who has no ideological objection to any of them.

These languages and their libraries just plain aren’t mature and it’s unclear if they ever will be.

And what do these meme languages accomplish? If your language can’t handle fucking JSON it’s shit.

Really, scripting languages were never meant for speed so I just never cared. If I need to crunch numbers I write a liberry in C or use CUDA or something.

Are new things actually written in PHP? I heard it’s having some kind of meme comeback, but can’t confirm

We should just start over and write out our own fedi implementation in a scripting language that has all the cool toys. Phoenix is a meme and so is Elixir. Functional programming was a mistake.

Yeah but don’t scripting language such as Python or Ruby have this shit

So based. Will buy the game now

Has he really fallen that far? I haven’t listened to any TRS shit in years

I pronounce it “engine-ex”

I mean the point of the game is you’re a petty criminal who, through a combination of animal cunning and just not giving a fuck, “makes it.” This has been the focus of Grand Theft Auto since 1997. I’m not sure what the objection is to a game about criminality featuring tons of nigs nogging and the like.

The execution looks fine. And I’m digging the Bonnie and Clyde angle.

GTA2 was the pinnacle of GTA