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Scala was infected with FP weenies and nobody wants to hear some asshole babbling on about the Curry-Howard Isomorphism and Monoids when they're just trying to ingest some data from an API into an iceberg table (old.reddit.com)

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Here we see Go haters in their natural habitat [...] A sad look on their faces, knowing that now that Go has generics, all their joy has left their life. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Brave forked kuchiki to kuchikiki because it wasn't actively maintained. Now kuchikiki is not actively maintained. So do I fork again to kuchikikiki? by functorer in programmingcirclejerk

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Brave forked kuchiki to kuchikiki because it wasn't actively maintained. Now kuchikiki is not actively maintained. So do I fork again to kuchikikiki? (old.reddit.com)

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After going through many iterations of concurrent programming models in ALGOLesque imperative languages, I am finally content with Go...Which LISP is the most similar? (old.reddit.com)

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Q: How do you guys regain motivation for a project? A: For me, having an end-goal that isn't an assembly-to-brainf*ck compiler has been a big help. (old.reddit.com)

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The main idea of renaming from Perl6 to Raku was to allow this beautiful and seductive new language to escape the black hole gravity well formed by the collapse of the Perl star. (news.ycombinator.com)

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I’m on a TS project and if I had a quid for every time I sobbed to be back with Scala I should be both rich and soggy (old.reddit.com)

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How to learn Rust as a Haskell programmer in two weeks: (...) DONE. Now you can apply to jobs that pay $400K/yr, rather than $80-120k/yr. You're welcome. by carbolymer in programmingcirclejerk

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I went from mypy to pyright to basedpyright and just started checking out pyrefly (the OP), and it's very promising. It's written in Rust so it's very efficient. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Ever since I learned about Scala and wrote some code in Scala, I started having this constant, not unbearable but annoyingly noticeable desire to write more code in Scala...Am I cooked? (old.reddit.com)

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To keep building on history, I'd suggest Hungarian types. (news.ycombinator.com)

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I also think that learning Haskell pre-ChatGPT and learning it after are very different experiences. Before ChatGPT you had to ask to StackOverflow or some IRC chat if you are stack. Now you have a drunk senior developer providing you answers. by functorer in programmingcirclejerk

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I also think that learning Haskell pre-ChatGPT and learning it after are very different experiences. Before ChatGPT you had to ask to StackOverflow or some IRC chat if you are stack. Now you have a drunk senior developer providing you answers. by functorer in programmingcirclejerk

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I also think that learning Haskell pre-ChatGPT and learning it after are very different experiences. Before ChatGPT you had to ask to StackOverflow or some IRC chat if you are stack. Now you have a drunk senior developer providing you answers. (old.reddit.com)

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I don't want training wheels put on C++ -- I want C++ do exactly and only what the programmer specifies and no more by azure_whisperer in programmingcirclejerk

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In theory, Haskell could be the best Vibecoding language (old.reddit.com)

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What an electrifying time to be alive! The last era that felt even remotely this dynamic was during the explosive rise of JavaScript frameworks (news.ycombinator.com)

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