It’s hard to overstate the pervasiveness of WhatsApp in some some countries. Where I’m from work, service hiring, costumer service, etc are all conducted through (and specially for small businesses only though) WhatsApp.
I think it’s more like people want to enjoy the view without having to learn how to climb, which is a perfectly reasonable thing to want, even if it cheapens the experience somewhat.
I’ve seen fishy looking engagement in hn before, but I’m inclined to think uv’s praise is genuine. It reflects the collective relief of seeing an extremely long and painful journey finally come to an end (hopefully).
Redesigns are cool exercises and what you’ve done looks good mostly. It only shows top level comments though, and the text colour is unreadable in dark mode.
You say you’re trying to improve the original design, but it’s not clear to me how what you’ve done is an improvement.
If you really want to learn another language specifically instead of something else, then getting well acquainted with bash and awk wouldn’t be wasted effort.
When I migrated years ago (mostly to get access to some plugins), nvim gladly swallowed my old configuration with no changes. Then I could change to lua and other modern features at my own pace.
I’ve been using it for around the same time, and never cared much about formatters. Linting is useful but wouldn’t call it essential. But type checking is a non negotiable on any project I lead. It’s not perfect by any means, but beats having to crawl my way through a call stack trying to figure out what the hell a function is expected to take and why it’s getting a None instead.
I have yet to find a single drawback of adopting mypy (or similars) that isn’t completely eclipsed by the benefits.
Funny how the use of the acute accent instead of the macron for long vowels completely changes the “feel” of the written language to me. Makes it look less classy.
I’m not a qft-ist, but from the top my head the Higgs field wouldn’t explain the (likely positive) mass of neutrinos. So there could potentially be another mass creation mechanism. But someone else more informed could clarify.
> If I attach something to my car it doesn’t affect your car.
Yes, that was my point.
> For the majority who use Python for single threaded code, no-GIL will make their code slower because a thread-safe interpreter is always going to be slower than one that can assume ST operation.
I'm almost sure the python developers said that they will compensate the slow down with other optimizations, so that you'd never have single-threaded performance degradation version-to-version.
> So no-GIL will only be faster for a minority of a minority who want parallelism but can’t use OS processes or subinterpreters.
One would hope to 1. open new use cases for python thus attracting developers that would have otherwise not given the language consideration and 2. other users could benefit from new optimizations that could be implemented further down the dependency stack.
Of course there's no guarantee that that will materialize, but the idea the adding support to an established, lightweight and well-supported concurrency primitive is so obviously a "stupid idea" shows to me that your (rudely expressed) opinion is entirely self-centered and nearsighted.
I might add that the move from python 2 to 3 was incredibly painful, but I assume most agree (with the benefit of hindsight) that it was entirely correct.
That's such a strangely distorted world view. If a car company releases a, idk, trunk-extension in response to customer feedback would you go "How is this Ford's problem? If you didn't think about the trunk size eat the loss and buy a new car" ? Python developers want python to remain useful to the developers who want to keep using the language. It's not an incomprehensible motivation.
I don’t know if that exactly explains the short life of the Labubu fad, but I find the disappearance of shared culture quite evident these days.