lua is a really cute and surprisingly capable language! it’s how I got my start, and it’s one of the easiest languages I’ve ever played with. it would’ve been a good pick for web, I think. probably just needed to be fleshed out more.

for real. I’m very lucky to have landed a job in it, but it’s a dry market for anyone looking if they don’t want to be doing crypto. Rust has made a big name for itself but still isn’t that popular where it matters.

why don’t we store code unformatted and have everybody’s IDE display it with their preferred format applied? it would make everything easier and stop people bickering over pointless things.

shorter code is not always better, especially when it comes to types. building in lots of guard rails by being verbose with the type system is a good thing. “shorter = better” is the python approach that starts off fun and easy but the codebase scales extremely poorly.

hard agree. I’m sick of all the “it doesn’t matter what languages you learn” talk because it’s just not true. yes, there are broad foundational skills that apply to nearly every language, but beyond that, you’re specializing, and the way the language you choose is designed will stick with you. I’ve seen the concept that you get accents in programming languages just as much as spoken ones, and I think it’s totally true - when you learn a new language, you’re bringing your habits and assumptions from the last one. so to be honest I don’t care about the language design opinions of people who only know dynamically typed languages