As a native Spanish speaker, this sounds totally made up. Nova sounds like an astronomy word, like supernova.
“No va” to me means something like “it’s not happening” or “the plans have been cancelled”. But it’s pronounced very differently.
I find it funny, but excellent, that this post is flagged.
One of the things I love the most of HN is the ability to stay on topic.
I too hope HN stays like this forever.
Please go take a look at Rust and/or Swift to see how nice a language without null feels like.
It’s not that there’s no way to model nullability/optionality. It’s just that there’s a much better way to do it. Simple, obvious, composable, no quirks.
I read somewhere that the amount of programmers in the world doubles like every 5 years. That means that at any given moment, half of programmers have less than 5 years of experience.
I recommend people Zsh: it's very familiar, scripts copied from the internet will most probably work and they have lots of flexibility to adjust it to their needs.
I personally have a Mac with Fish installed, I don't enjoy the process of sharpening my tools, I'm willing to give up flexibility in exchange of great defaults.
It's the same reason why after I learned how to use a sharpening stone, I ended up buying an electric knife sharpener.