I’d recommend everyone check out https://prql-lang.org/. It’s SQL, but readable and writable in a sane way.

And no, SQL is NOT readable or writable for anything involving more than a single join.

SQL is horrible as a language to read or write. There’s a million different variants, because it lacks so many basic things. And when used in other code, you generally end up string concatinating one language in another language, with all the HORRIBLE bugs something like that brings about.

Imagine Backend People said we should just write adhoc Javascript for the frontend by concatinating the “correct” code in the backend.

Without a DSL for writing SQL, any sufficiently complex program will end up with string concatinating all over the place. Basically, writing a language with ZERO checks or highlighting or anything. That’s asking for trouble.

But coming from Java, I agree that some ORMs go way too far.

How’s the filesystem performance? Whenever I’ve mounted something into a Docker Container, the performance has suffered. For example, things like NPM/MVN suddenly take way longer.

How do you manage JVM versions? We have many older projects that use 8, and some newer ones using 17, for example.

Ironically, I learned Rust first, and later looked at Go. I found a lot of the syntax needlessly “different”. That being said, it’s still a decent language. Point being, a lot of the weirdness subsides once you understand why it’s there.

Personally, I don’t actually care about the lifecycle and memory management stuff. What I like about Rust is:

• An enforced error type that is very convenient to use with the ? operator. No more err != nil spam, but same amount of safety
• ADTs with a host of wonderful features, like exhaustive match statements. Go enums are horrendously basic, let’s be honest
• NO NIL!! Non existence is expressed with an Option type that, like the error type, comes with many conveniences
• Generics from the start, meaning you don’t have older code that throws away type safety anywhere
• Traits/Interfaces can be implemented for foreign/external types and types can implement external interfaces (duh)
• Great tooling, good formatting tools, good LSP, that kind of stuff. Golang has that too

Why learn Rust? For the same reason everyone should learn different languages. To learn new concepts and see new perspectives on old problems. It’ll make you a better developer even in your previous languages.

Compiler checked typing is strictly superior to dynamic typing. Any criticism of it is either ignorance, only applicable to older languages or a temporarily missing feature from the current languages.

Using dynamic languages is understandable for a lot of language “external” reasons, just that I really feel like there’s no good argument for it.

And that one single line that makes zero FUCKING SENSE AND YOU SPENT 5 DAYS TRYING TO FIX IT!!! That definitely needs a comment so the next idiot (aka you in 6 months) doesn’t think “what useless shit is this? Let’s delete this!”.

For bigger projects, anything with MANDATORY types is a must for me. Optional, not compiler checked hinting doesn’t cut it.

Not that i hate the language, but I do hate the tooling around it. I don’t think I’ve ever had a pleasant experience with setting up a Python project. And all the data stuff is just wrappers for code in other languages, making the packaging story even uglier, even harder.

In my experience it HEAVILY depends on the language you’re using. Nothing beats Intellij for Java or Kotlin, but Rust and Go feel at home in any editor.

I know that LSPs and DAPs somewhat take care of these, but the following are often easier in IDEs:

• Refactorings, including really smart language specific ones
• Support for fancy frameworks. For example, Intellij can analyse all annotations for Dependency Injection or Spring stuff, and will then tell you exactly how everything connects on a higher “framework” level. Arguably, this is a solution to a problem Enterprise Java created
• Debugging is easier
• In general, stuff works “well enough” out of the box. As a fan of Neovim, I’ve definitely been frustrated a lot the first time I had to set something up
• Fancy integrations, for example linking frontend code calling backend code directly, or an entire little Database Manager builtin, with magic SQL code completion

Yeah, well, that’s just Python for you. List usages is now an LSP feature for most languages, so will work with “lesser” editors too.

All that being said, I use Intellij with Java daily, so I can see where you’re coming from. But for example Rust or Go works wonderfully with Neovim (or VSCode).

What do you gain from that approach, compared to comments, and appropriate whitespace? If you spread out your function over three, you now potentially have triple the moving parts. You have to manage in- and output, and you have to hope noone coming after you sees your subfunction, and assumes it’s there for using.

We used to have a Python guy at my work. For a lot of LITTLE ETL stuff he created Python projects. In two projects I’ve had to fix up now, he used different tooling. Both those toolings have failed me (Poetry, Conda). I ended up using our CI/CD pipeline code to run my local stuff, because I could not get those things to work.

For comparison, it took me roughly zero seconds to start working on an old Go project.

Python was built in an era where space was expensive and it was only used for small, universal scripts. In that context, having all packages be “system-wide” made sense. All the virtual env shenanigans won’t ever fix that.

I agree, yet I also see no good universal alternative. Every language has a nice tool to do things in it’s ecosystem, but the moment you need to coordinate two languages or go beyond simple stuff, make is the only good option.

PHP the language has become pretty nice, but I recently had to work with a PHP CMS deployment, and it was an absolute pain to do. PHP frameworks seem to still exist in a world where you manually upload code to a manually configured server running apache. Dockerizing the CMS (uses Symfony) is/was an absolute pain.

Dungeon Fighter is a very silly coop game that might appeal to people that don’t like board games normally. You’re a group of adventurers and have to move through a dungeon. You roll the dice on a big bullseye board. The twist is that all abilities or traps etc. are in the form of modifying how you roll your dice. So you might have to roll the dice from below the table, or while jumping etc.