I usually write “POSIXy shell” but I thought that was clear from context this time.
The problem is that exit statuses !=0 aren’t treated as error by default (with a way to turn that off for individual expressions). Instead you have to set multiple settings and avoid certain constructs in bash/ZSH/…
Everything that works like a modern programming language by default is fine of course
Yeah, and that’s just one of many many things to consider.
As a long time former ZSH user, I’ll definitely include ZSH in shell languages to avoid for scripting.
The problem is simply the number of rules and incantations to slavishly include everywhere to make your script bail on error. set -e is not enough by far.
Python with plumbum or nushell are definitely better.
Oh you sweet summer child.
If you don’t use pipes or command substitutions, set -e gets you a fair part of the way there.
If you’re interested, I can look up the rest of the arcane incantations necessary.
Shell scripts were a mistake. The weirdness you have to remember to safely stop executing when something fails is mind-boggling.
I’m so glad nushell exists and doesn’t need any configuring to just do the reasonable thing and stop executing when something fails.
Why?
I don’t think a lot of people think that mushrooms are vegetables in any sense. If you check culinary lists of vegetables, they don’t contain edible fungi.
Good advice, bad biology: mushrooms aren’t plants and therefore nor vegetables.
Yup! All of the following features were in CoffeeScript first: Modules, classes, arrow functions, async functions, parameter defaults, …spread, destructuring, template strings.
So I’d say it was extremely successful in making JavaScript better.
Very funny. Lying to get people riled up is truly the greatest form of humor. Yawn
So that “special release build” is the build you do debugging with. Shouldn’t you just modify the otherwise useless debug profile and turn on all the optimizations necessary to make it usable?
Yes, that stuck with me very much. It’s one thing to hear fellow leftists talk about how Trump shifted the Overton window. It’s a whole different thing to hear that a Nazi fully feels the effects of it having truly shifted.
You’re lucky that you don’t know all the fucked stereotypes going into this. If you really wanna know, I’m pretty sure it’s:
No you wouldn’t be any deader than you will be a fraction of a second from now. You only live in the moment. In the next you are replaced by someone who is almost, but not exactly you. Continuous consciousness is an illusion, or a concept. There’s no magic piece that makes you you.
It’s a trick of perspective.
In the moment of copying, they’re the same, after that, they’re diverging through different experience. The difference in atoms/location is irrelevant from the perspective of that person’s consciousness. They both are the original in any sense that counts for them or others.
Your continued existence isn’t in question. Continuity of consciousness is an illusion. If you would put your brain state in stasis and resume it later, you wouldn’t feel any different. Neither would a copied version of you. That feeling of continuity is all there is to consciousness.
Nothing of value is lost.
Great path, your Rust (and e.g. Python) will benefit a lot in the medium term. Medium because if you’re anytging like me, you’ll overcorrect at first and try to do everything without variables lol