Good for you. Not all of us have terabytes of free space on our computers.
Only a part. A lot of the complexity is completely unnecessary.
Or Nim?
What’s the point of having a function in the standard library if the universal recommendation is to never use it?
Rust is downloading 1546 dependencies
Not only that, it makes your entire purchase free due to NaN arithmetic.
They said “the official version”.
As the OP said, there are FOSS hosted forges. You don’t need to self-host.
With SourceHut, other people can submit patches by e-mail, no need to create an account.
The two-tier reply system on SO is really useful and would be harder to implement – the replies to the questions, but also replies to the posts/replies. I don’t know how that would look if starting from Lemmy as a base.
How so? Lemmy allows unlimited nesting of replies, which is even better.
Not if the language is standardized from the start.
An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.
Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.
Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.
Still better than
for _, item in ipairs(items)
I fucking hate auto-generated changelogs, so I consider that a downside.
Why would you want to edit your commit history? When I need to look at it for some reason, I want to see what actually happened, not a fictional story.
Java bytecode is designed specifically for class-oriented languages like Java and works terribly with anything else.
To be honest, my comment probably applies more to
gets
, but the point is the same.