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> By that standard nothing is.

Okay, and? I didn't make the claim that some other language was all that. I was dispelling the claim that Python is.

> Even the pickle.dumps() example is obvious

Well, we've so far been restricted to function names which is what the claim was. There are plenty of cryptic other names in Python like ABCMeta, deriving from `object`, MRO, slots, dir, spec, etc.

The idea you can't do RAD with libraries is insane. Games are developed rapidly, and a lot of game engines use C#. The fact that you're using Unity, a very large dependency, means nothing regarding whether you can do RAD, which is more about having the right architecture, tooling, and development cycle.

The difference between new and init is not knowable from reading their names. The same is true of pickle. By definition, that makes them unintuitive.

A lot of languages work for RAD including Clojure, C#, and JavaScript. This is nothing special about Python.

Intuitive function names like __new__() and __init__()? Or id() and pickle.dumps()?

The accessibility of Python is overrated. It's a language with warts and issues just like the others. Also the lack of static typing is a real hindrance (yes I know about mypy).

We need to see a move toward the gold standard. People should generally be trading dollars for gold, even if it's virtual gold. Ever since we got off the gold standard, compensation has been lagging behind productivity, and that means that over time everyone's compensation has been slowly shrinking. It may well be true that fiat currency is necessary at some point in a country's history, but that moment isn't right now.

I hope you are at least getting paid to proliferate the doomerism. Societal direction is influenced by, well, society.

Another annoying thing Go proponents say is that it is simple. It is not. And even if it was, the code you write with a simple language is not automatically simple. Take the k8s control plane for example; some of the most convoluted and bulky code that exists, and it’s all in Go.

So now we have Next, Nuxt, and Nyxt. What’s noxt?

That’s how it was for over a decade, with the browser quirks and inconsistent behavior. Why is that good?

I’m down to join this effort if anyone else wants to retire row in the same direction.

If only they’d hire some more people to get their search function working.

To push back on this article's thrust, those are actual issues that can occur with dependencies. It's just that they usually don't, and most dependencies are harmless, small, and transparent, so articles like this and people complaining about dependencies are almost always overstating their case.

And therefore, adopting a "zero dependencies" policy is absolutely an overreaction.

When I first moved to the Bay Area, San Francisco was described by one person to me as "quite conservative actually." At the time, that seemed unlikely. However after a while, I can now see why this is the case.

Just don't rent from Hertz; that is, if you don't want to risk being put $400,000 in debt for no reason at all. [1]

[1] https://www.npr.org/2022/12/06/1140998674/hertz-false-accusa...

Or so you think..

[1] https://metr.org/blog/2025-07-10-early-2025-ai-experienced-o...

[2] https://futurism.com/companies-fixing-ai-replacement-mistake...

That seems more like your interpretation of it; it’s merely an objective descriptor of the identity group in the same way that “straight white males” is.

We need some kind of antitrust gym laws. There are far too few gyms for the amount of demand they see.

Is that not the very reason to have documentation in the first place, the fact that it is not a human?

When I think of content you'd find on HN, the essence is probably best captured by Paul Graham's essays. And yet, those are by and large political, in fact the very first one is. [1]

[1] https://www.paulgraham.com/prop62.html

Politics have escaped their sandbox, that's why. When you say "politics" what you actually mean is the disintegration of the whole system.

What is all software but tinkering?

I mean this not as an insult to software dev but to work generally. It’s all play in the end.

Not rent, just crippling debt: https://apnews.com/article/crime-prisons-lawsuits-connecticu...

Over-hiring may have been part of the issue, but a large part is also Section 174:

https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/section-174/

The brains are not the problem in this scenario.

Do you know that a system is more powerful than an impulse?

This will either be really good or a nothingburger. I'm interested to see what, if any, kind of activism Buffett does with his power, previously held back by his fiduciary role.

Because the article is from 2022 and says that they will use a custom language called Jakt which didn't pan out, it seems. Yes, I am also eager for the Swift rewrite to get off the ground.

Answer is here, although the article is outdated and the most recent news is that they are rewriting the browser at least in Swift.

https://awesomekling.github.io/Memory-safety-for-SerenityOS/

That’s still a work in progress. And is it really faster than Go compilation? Just because it’s written in Go doesn’t guarantee that.

Compilation time is fast, and it’s debuggable. Typescript would be the main competitor in my mind, but compilation with TS is slow and you have no parallelism without native extensions.

> that is not going to happen, ever

This is exactly the sort of thing people start saying before a bubble pops.