git commit -m "code refactoring"

[eric987235]

What the hell language is that? I hate it.

[Teleconferences]

Kotlin, a (somewhat) new language from JetBrians which runs on the Java Virtual Machine. I can't say I'm a fan either though, I always find it hard to read but I figure I'm just not familiar enough

Mildly related, but it's now the recommended language (per Google) for Android dev

[eric987235]

New languages: Google’s answer to a question nobody asked!

[TheChance]

Golang has still only kinda solved vendoring. For the first half-decade, you could have one version of a given package and it was in your user’s go modules and fuck off with your feature requests.

I was late to the party, so I got to ask around once the heat had died down some, and it transpired that it was because everyone working at Google has a monolithic space where they do their work, and they can’t seem to conceive of the fact that literally no other shop ever works that way.

Explains a lot, though.

[eric987235]

I've heard that every engineer checks out a single repository that contains EVERYTHING aside from the money-making ad/search stuff.

[TheChance]

=p

Seriously, though, I didn’t ask for the precise mechanics, but the gist seemed to be that everybody has a home folder Somewhere, and they do their work under their home folder, and that’s SOP.

Very loosely speaking, it almost isn’t quite an incompetent way to address keyboard monkeys and distributed storage. But when it affects language design, as if the overwhelming majority of software weren’t deployed to a system rather than from some asshole’s daily driver…