Awesome you say? Sounds like a good candidate for being discontinued by Google.

Meanwhile PHP quietly runs 80% of the internet by being used for WordPress.

“There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses.”

Always remember, the silicon valley ethos of “break things” wasn’t about their applications, it was about breaking industry, society, laws and your ability to oversee or regulate them.

the tests are now larger than the thing itself

Is such a weird complaint. You should aim for your codebase to be as small, simple and readable as possible, while your tests should be a specification that guarantees behavior is consistent between refactors. When you add behavior, you add tests, when you remove a behavior, you delete tests.

The size of either is independent of eachother. Small code bases that provide lots of features should be simple to read, but with a lot of tests.

I’ve programmed C# for nearly 15 years, and have used goto twice . Once to simplify an early break from a nested loop, essentially a nested continue. The second was to refactor a giant switch statement in a parser, essentially removing convoluted while loops, and just did a goto the start.

It’s one of those things that almost should never be used, but the times it’s been needed, it removed a lot of silliness.

async/await was introduced in version 4.5, released 2012. More than a few releases at this point!

Powershell

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Like a fungus you learn to live with

Apparently every code base I’ve ever worked on was run through this.

The company I work for is smort

This is every company I’ve ever worked for. If other people didn’t vouche for their own tests, I’d assume automated testing was a myth.

I never saw that, that’s legitimately funny. I’d love to be in the room when that feature was designed, and the reaction of the developer it was handed too.

I don’t know if the game is the best example of busineses making top-down design decisions, since that game was an obvious scam from the start.

Remember when people were calling this dummy the “real life Tony Stark”? Lol.

Htmx for server requests and AplineJS for client interactions

You can write it in whatever language you want, as long as it’s rust.

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Depends:

For websites: Htmx + AlpineJs on the front end, ASP.NET Razor Pages and PostegreSQL on the backend.

For Web Apps; Blazor and PostgreSQL

I didn’t have an answer for a very long time. Or more seriously, the answer was “the one that paid the most”. I’ve run the gamut of popular languages, C, C++, Java, Javascript, perl, ruby, Python, Visual Basic, VB.Net, C# and F#.

But the last couple years it’s really been C#. The pace of development on the language/runtime has really picked up with yearly releases. The features that are added and iterated on are expressive and intuitive. You can tell from the discussion posts on how a feature is being considered for inclusion is thoughtful and deliberate. It really feels like the language is in good hands.

Just wish those hands weren’t Microsoft.

Wild swings between the greatest trip you’ve ever had, and excruciatingly slow death.

Yes, I couldn’t recommend htmx highly enough.