Aaron Parecki

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andrewtj https://twitter.com/andrewtj

If I whittle down the things I dislike about Rust, ultimately it's that it has a young ecosystem that's a little bit too under resourced.

Wed, Jul 17, 2019 12:37am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 5:42pm -07:00)
map witch ebel ⛧ 🧙‍♀️🗺️🌍 https://moytura.org/@ebel

Every C in “Pacific Ocean” is pronounced differently

Mon, Jul 15, 2019 8:25pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 5:04pm -07:00)
rose eveleth https://xoxo.zone/@roseveleth • Jul 16
There are now two Flash Forward copy-cats out there, both claiming to have invented a brand new genre. One of them is super well funded. The other is about to make $$ on a Kickstarter. Watching people who wouldn't give me the time of day praise these new shows as "innovative" truly makes me want to find a new career.

ugh that is the worst, I'm so sorry!

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 5:04pm -07:00
panamapauper https://jorts.horse/@panamapauper

Pavlov: the dogs salivate when I ring a bell
Me: weird. Why?
Pavlov: they connect two unrelated events due to repeated conditioning
Me: haha stupid animals
Pavlov: the experiment took 69 days
Me: nice

Wed, Jul 10, 2019 9:24am +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 5:03pm -07:00)
Ok that was fun, thanks for all the responses! Lots of great stuff in there.

Now take your favorite programming language and tell me the 3 things you most dislike about it.

No complaining about languages you don't use!

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 4:54pm -07:00
Alex White https://twitter.com/NAlexWhite

- a mental model that works for me
- excellent quality error messages
- sufficiently expressive

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 11:23pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 4:51pm -07:00)
Whoa, the plane that landed in front of us blew a tire on landing and delayed our takeoff by 20 minutes while they cleaned it up. ✈️

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 3:47pm -07:00 #travel
Ben Werdmuller https://mastodon.social/@benwerd

@aaronpk Really good, human-readable documentation; open package management; a short time to first run without proprietary tooling.

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 10:14pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 3:41pm -07:00)
Patrick Tomasso https://twitter.com/imPatrickT

#YouTube in 50 years.

San Diego, California

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 8:56pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 3:00pm -07:00) #YouTube
nitinkhanna https://micro.blog/nitinkhanna • Jul 16
@aaronpk should be easy to script in it, should be easy to scale up and write OOP code in it, shouldn't be Objective C or Java.

What about ObjC and Java do you not like?

San Diego, California

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 2:59pm -07:00
Micro SF/F stories https://twitter.com/MicroSFF

"Welcome to Magic School. Here is your schedule."
"Thanks! But..."
"Yes?"
"This is just 'Ethics' and 'Human rights' and things like that."
"Correct, that's the first year curriculum."
"Do we have to learn all this?"
"Of course! What do you think this is, software engineering?"

San Diego, California

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at Gate 24

San Diego, California • Tue, July 16, 2019 2:23pm

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San Diego, CA, United States

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at San Diego International Airport (SAN)

San Diego, California • Tue, July 16, 2019 2:08pm

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Just a layover before heading to #KCDC

San Diego, CA, United States

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San Diego, California

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 2:08pm -07:00
Jesse Warden https://twitter.com/jesterxl

1. Fun
2. Employable
3. Benevolent owners

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 8:13pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 1:53pm -07:00)
Jamey Sharp https://toot.cat/@jamey

@aaronpk Huh, that's a tough question. Functions and some kind of module-like construct as units of code reuse, and... I guess a syntax for comments?
It's easier for me to list features I think other people might consider mandatory that I don't think are critical, like objects, or loops, or Turing-completeness 😁
Or to list features I wish every language had but can't insist on, like type inference, sum types (aka "tagged unions"), and closures.

Herlong, California

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 7:59pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 1:12pm -07:00)
Mike Estee https://twitter.com/mikeestee

- robust community support and adoption
- good impedance match with problem space
- excellent support tooling

note that none of those are about the BNF.

Herlong, California

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 7:57pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 12:59pm -07:00)
Mike Estee https://twitter.com/mikeestee • Jul 16
- robust community support and adoption
- good impedance match with problem space
- excellent support tooling

note that none of those are about the BNF.

Exactly what I was looking for, thanks!

Herlong, California

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 12:59pm -07:00
Tristan https://twitter.com/twaddington

Good documentation.
Nice standard library.
Package management.

Bly, Oregon

Tue, Jul 16, 2019 7:39pm +00:00 (liked on Tue, Jul 16, 2019 12:40pm -07:00)
What are the three features a programming language absolutely must have in order for you to use it?

No wrong answers! Go!

Sisters, Oregon

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Tue, Jul 16, 2019 12:27pm -07:00

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