but we _were_ paying for monthly subscriptions to prime vide.

it's quite possible you may unknowingly have seen him in Mary Poppins, where he plays _two_ roles, and I was mind blown when I noticed the second after 30 years or so.

the comment is wrong, what Gleam lacks is interfaces.

Which feels super strange, but doesn't seem to really be a problem, e.g. imagine a language where you'd write

    fun sum_all_numbers(Iterable<T> it) { it.fold(...) } # an interface
    sum_all_numbers(a_list) # a list implements iterable

Gleam wants you to write

    fun sum_all_numbers(Iterator<T> it) { it.fold(...) } # a concrete type
    sum_all_numbers(a_list.iterator) # get the caller to build the right object

edit: found an article that explained this a bit better https://mckayla.blog/posts/all-you-need-is-data-and-function...

Yes this is the article I was referring to. Gleam does not need interfaces or traits because functions can do it

ironically, the blog lacks a rel=me link that would make streetpass work on it :)

Oops, added. Thanks :)

..VB6 was to windows dev?

People with very little competence could and did get things done, but it was a mess underneath.

I was never a perl programmer, but this was my impression of basically every perl programmer I have interacted with.

Also, I think Larry Wall's "Diligence, Patience, Humility"[0] is among my favourite articles about programming.

[0] https://www.oreilly.com/openbook/opensources/book/larry.html

I think deepwiki has been popping up in my search results (e.g. for rust.vim) and I did not initially understand what it is. I am not sure I am happy it appeared there at all.

> But ChatGPT is an insane brand

I mean, so was netscape.

This. Netscape was THE browser in the early phases of the Internet. Then Microsoft just packaged IE into Windows and it was game over. The brand means nothing long term. If Google broadly incorporates Gemini into all the Google-owned things everyone already has then it’s game over for OpenAI.

The mass commoditization of the tech is rapidly driving AI to be a feature, not a product. And Google is very strongly positioned to take advantage of that. Microsoft too, and of course they have a relationship with OpenAI but that’s fraying.

To be completely fair the later versions of Netscape were increasingly giant bloated piles of crap while IE slowly caught up and surpassed in terms of speed and features. The first versions IE were only good for downloading Netscape.

Netscape, to a large degree, killed itself.

Not to say IE turned into anything good though. But it did have its hayday.

What's up with the flock of downvotes? I'd never got a comment with so many as this one… Is being younger than 45 not allowed in here?

the time frame matches too, 14 to 20 gives you one day of rest after the last AoC, and then three more days to buy presents before Christmas that you forgot to co :)

I usually do it with ruby with is well suite just like python, but last year I did it with Elixir.

I think it lends itself very well to the problem set, the language is very expressive, the standard library is extensive, you can solve most things functionally with no state at all. Yet, you can use global state for things like memoization without having to rewrite all your functions so that's nice too.