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but saying you’re a Star Wars fan is basically meaningless now. And for people who proudly wore that mantle, through eyerolls and ridicule, that’s a genuine loss.

I remember explaining something similar to my partner (not about Star Wars) and about how this isn't about "gatekeeping" (though it can become gatekeeping) but rather about this loss. I can't remember exactly what it was about now, but it was some aspect of nerd culture that didn't exactly become mainstream, but rather morphed to become mainstream.

The people doing this are not behaving rationally. Asking "why..." is fundamentally misunderstanding

A language's deficiencies are rarely obvious when everyone is writing it perfectly.

But a coherent type system gives the programmer confidence - for free. Do you know what [1] + [2] is in JavaScript? Do you know what type it is? JavaScript teaches you that it has operator overloading for built-in types but then it behaves in such a dumb way you can't use it.

That's explained by a desire to be extremely lenient, but it's not justified by it. Programming langauges are generally not made by idiots, so every bad decision has an explanation.

ML is a very new field and so most programs are not mature, and indeed they can have you messing around with venvs and such.

But most python software people actually used is packaged by a distro already.

Just look up the video entitled "wat" which is mainly about JavaScript

If you use typescript you will obviously never see the weird type system of JavaScript

If you're writing python code you have to deal with versioning, yeah. But the end user basically never has to care.

I think what's missing from the discussion is that virtually no-one is getting food delivery every day.

I'm sure they're very excited about their Lemmy metrics

They enjoyed various spices, but not what you would get in a modern curry house. The influence of Indian cooking was already there though in kedgeree and mulligatawny soup, for example. (Both are still common today)

Pretty sure this image is older than ai image generation.