The Explain XKCD for this comic is gold.

However birds do not use GPS to navigate, [citation needed]

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

You’re so close to reinventing Smalltalk…

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.

beer ~ piss

wine ~ rotten blood

coffee ~ diarrhea

raw meat (tartar steak, etc) ~ used chewing gum picked from a pavement

dark salami ~ rotting corpse

vinegar ~ battery acid

moldy cheese ~ moldy cheese

Try writing 20 algebraic manipulations of the equation on paper and you’ll quickly understand why it’s written that way.

Why not just add function overloading to the language and have a function named copy that takes a string and an optional character count?

Rust is downloading 1546 dependencies

It does not give the exact answer, only an approximation.

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.

I haven’t seen any of what they said on Saidit.

That’s a very narrow definition of freedom of speech.

Since when is Saidit a fascist site?