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the more abstract and general, the more typing dx goes to heck. i prefer strong static but flexible

i hope one cannot condone any language that defaults class fields to public. footguns aplenty for

without a good sdk, a language is not overly useful. how about stealing one? if a new language is

https://effectivetypescript.com/2021/05/06/unsoundness/

no obvious repo? no obvious history? no obvious last updated timestamp? https://docs.racket-lang.org/

its the ecosystem, stupid! https://prettier.io/docs/configuration

funny how in lots of languages it is hard to have standard consistent clean ways to conditionally get

Even IDE integration is a lie, especially for less statically typed, but even so for statically typed

(because apparently they are all hard problems.) fake unreliable hacky unprincipled hot reload fake

CRUD is still no matter what a complete nightmare of boilerplate.

because in the source code it is not well explained, managed, encoded, understood, maintainable. it

https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/we-lost-something-1970s-repls-were?r=1egdky > In the

the state space is not managed well. at all. just keystone cops hilariously negligent. and

a sci fi story about a culture that has a programming language with OOWTDI and they shoot anybody who

well i want something like this but something that actually does not suck too much in reality https:/

software is fractally bad. bad everywhere you look, in big and small ways. and the bad things are

no way to see or manage the full state space. On Thu, Dec 4, 2025 at 16:21 Raoul Duke <raould@

3 levels of if else statements… please suggest a better approach. Or, how can I make this Boolean

Been there. Yes. Get typing right early. It took me the longest time to get the “as” polymorphic prop

will anybody ever be able to square the circle of look-and-feel markup vs. control-and-data-flow code

It's not news that the API is hard to use and get right. It's not 1 or 2 things, it's

oh i have LOTS of good star trek coding ideas if AI ever gets that good at listening to me &

there's an old adage from at least the old lambda-the-ultimate.org days that you generally don

are like just the worst - excepting for all others, unfortunately :-( it is amazing how much of

at the top of this stack is a dsl done entirely in json, with no json schema or much documentation ha

relationships (temporal, logical, relational, physical, nested, graph, open, closed, a/sync, control

Yggdrasil https://shenlanguage.org/yggdrasil.html

https://alloytools.org/ wish i had the time

Obvious when creating "Tree" type for example, but also useful when you want to type React

Yeah, that can only go so far. How do you debug? I have the same issue with GraphQL. I don't know