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?!

But starting / the mvp part is the most fun right? Fun tip: try nim. It has many benefits. Playing with it for a while and it's lib would be limited but I'm actually quite happy with it's tooling.

@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

@Lensflare some of my rants disappeared as well, can happen. It's a kinda roulette. Devrant is like a problem child. It has issues, but you accept and love the platform bevause it's yours. You know that it does its best and you won't let it down. It'll become better someday or dies at a young age.

@Lensflare I found nim by a deep research on underrated languages and did nice stuff with it and it's tooling - works great!! The AI said things like immature and stuff but I totally don't agree since not having surprises yet. Sure, it won't have the telegram bot api library available somewhere but you get what I mean. For not too specific use cases it has what you need like a blazing fast multi threaded + async web framework, encryption libraries etc.

@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.

Let's all find out together if @Lensflare knows what he is talking about or is like his best friend @awesomemeest. Let's use four agents and the newest Grok 4.2 technology replacing perplexity as the new replacement of perplexity for being accurate. The results may surprise you: https://devrant.molodetz.nl/preview...

@Lensflare maybe you can add this to your resume. Awesomemeest has a Chatgpt chat that tells she's amazing as reference on their linked in and I'm not making a joke. She has an article named there "Chatgpt knows more about you than you think" with a link to a chat with the most upsucking llm in mankind boasting her intelligence. The queen of dunin Kruger. Really, look it up and become her 40th connection of this promising career woman that write a c compiler when she was eight. One time I disturbed her when a plane was waiting on her. Living movie.

@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 🤣

@Lensflare haha of course I don't but i have an expensive subscription so I should use it.

Yeah, the linkedIn thingy really blew my mind. You could tell chatgpt that you're an pedophile and it will tell you that you're great with kids :P

"ChatGPT knows more about you than you think" -> "I know less about ChatGPT than you would've tought." :P

She still lives rent free in my head. What a terrible person.

@Lensflare haha of course I don't but i have an expensive subscription so I should use it.

Yeah, the linkedIn thingy really blew my mind. You could tell chatgpt that you're an pedophile and it will tell you that you're great with kids :P

"ChatGPT knows more about you than you think" -> "I know less about ChatGPT than you would've tought." :P

She still lives rent free in my head. What a terrible person.

@Lensflare haha of course I don't but i have an expensive subscription so I should use it.

Yeah, the linkedIn thingy really blew my mind. You could tell chatgpt that you're an pedophile and it will tell you that you're great with kids :P

"ChatGPT knows more about you than you think" -> "I know less about ChatGPT than you would've tought." :P

She still lives rent free in my head. What a terrible person.

@Lensflare haha of course I don't but i have an expensive subscription so I should use it.

Yeah, the linkedIn thingy really blew my mind. You could tell chatgpt that you're an pedophile and it will tell you that you're great with kids :P

"ChatGPT knows more about you than you think" -> "I know less about ChatGPT than you would've tought." :P

She still lives rent free in my head. What a terrible person.

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

@Lensflare I just gave you the chance to upvote me more. It's an unique opertunity.

I have the #1 post on hetzner subreddit today. Everyone wants a picture of their server now.

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

@Lensflare we continue until we only can do Morse using the upvote button.

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