Oddbean

Rust is even *worse*, a learning curve not worth the trouble I may or may not not have used to work at Mozilla, and can tell you it has been a shit show for more than a decade My hostility to golang merely due to its creator is not pragmatic but oh well. Fuck Google with a chainsaw

netscape is evil, cisco is evil, microsoft is evil, samsung is evil, xiaomi is evil, apple is evil, ibm is evil not giving much differentiation here, why does google get extra special treatment? android phones? what makes you selectively abhor one tentacle over another?

mozilla's still enabling DRM bullshit, and they have been caught out hundreds of times not actually respecting privacy, still not seeing why i should hate google *more* than mozilla (formerly netscape) i'm in this industry for decades, they all suck, and mainly because tech is a branch of military intelligence, and open source is militia intelligence

also regarding that, another "hero" of privacy is apple, who make a big fuss about their supposed privacy features, while they monopolise spying on you the whole thing is theatre, none of these corporations are anything more than fronts for government spooks

what do you hate about the syntax? be specific the function signatures? the package management system? the variable declaration syntax? the modules files? i strongly suspect it's not the curly brackets but i haven't observed what your preference is, i guess if you are a python/php dev then ok, but that model has some serious deficiencies too

JSON to struct syntax looks like trash and is so verbose Everything in the current project I am on is incredibly verbose. Duplication is the way. Maybe this is the project designer’s fault? I could build this system in python in 1/10th the amount of code

yeah encoding/json is my most unfavourite, and the struct tags and the whole problem around json is a big hassle, that's partly why so much of my efforts this last 6 months have been involving json you can't actually use my library with standard JSON interfaces either, because that syntax assumes you don't care about generating memory garbage and the use of stupid strings

indeed, and i'm not a web dev i'm a server dev, my early background with Go was actually forking btcd (which is why you will sometimes see me raging against that dumpster fire) anyway, that wasn't even the problem with my recent work on a nostr relay, and fiatjaf has made a big note on his go-nostr repo alerting to the fact that his code does not handle goroutine lifecycles properly

google at least had this interesting thing where if you googled enough Python related questions, it would invite you to take this fun quiz, I assume to get an interview. i have respect for the creativity. but i guess that's not very private, snooping on what we're googling. also, what about the really good coders who aren't using google to find the answers https://image.nostr.build/77e429a66a7055fc456c5dab91f6fc12666f19241a72bad7c4e20deecbf43220.png https://image.nostr.build/27586469c957bfcb85f200b101f027be568d1cb8bcb567438dc7e53409269d4a.png

This touches something about Bitcoin that I love and no one ever talks about. Non government approved corporations in the future. We'll still need the organizing principle that led to corporations, but now we can organize production without approval