another project I can't start and instead procrastinate, wah wah wah

... actually that didn't happen with programming projects. programming is pretty fun. like solving sudokus all the time. how am I supposed to stay motivated if I'm not frustrated?!

@retoor
I took a brief look at nim and overall I like it.

Funny how it takes inspiration from Python for syntax but then goes into a completely different direction, being highly static, strict and compile time focussed, unlike python. 😄

The memory management concept sounds nice enough (haven’t seen the code/syntax yet), but I’m a little bit disappointed that it goes more C++/Rust than Swift.

Still wondering why seemingly no other language does it this way.

Btw, can’t make new rants atm. Hopefully a temporary issue

@whimsical I like that it serves as an example that syntactic whitespace and static and safe typing are not contradictory concepts.

Just like Swift serves as an example that elegant and convenient syntax is not contradictory to memory safety and type strictness.

It infuriates me when those things are mixed up and associated with each other just because it’s done that way in the most popular languages.

For example: JS isn’t convenient because it’s unsafe. There is no correlation in that. It’s just convenient in addition to being unsafe.

That might sound obvious but it actually disables most of the arguments being made for JS.

@whimsical lol you didn’t really need to ask an LLM to know that I know what I’m talking about when it comes to languages, did you? 😅

And I’m not trusting LLMs to accurately evaluate my expertise based on a few comments that I made.

But thanks anyway ^^

I know you are rage baiting me by saying awesomeest is my best friend. 😛

Anyway, that chatgpt thing on the linkedin is hilarious 🤣

@whimsical ok ok I got it! You don’t have to repeat it four times! 🤣

Shit, we might be at the actual death of devrant. Creating rants still not possible.

if you have nowhere to go after this thing dies I would recommend micro blogs: Bluesky and Mastodon.