And have regretted it.

FWIW Here’s similar go code (converted by a llm).

func TestReplyAlreadyBookmarked(t *testing.T) {
    var reply PostReply
    err := db.Raw(`
        SELECT pr.* FROM post_replies pr 
        WHERE pr.id IN (
            SELECT post_reply_id FROM post_reply_bookmark WHERE user_id = ?
        ) AND pr.deleted = false 
        LIMIT 1
    `, userID).First(&reply).Error
    
    if err == nil {
        err := putReplySave(auth, map[string]interface{}{
            "comment_id": reply.ID,
            "save":       true,
        })
        
        assert.Error(t, err)
        assert.Equal(t, "This comment has already been bookmarked.", err.Error())
    }
}

You can create in-line data structures AND be a properly typed language.

You define it in exactly the same way you just did. Completely fine, you have to do it for lots of things. It’s nice that Python can do that too.

“It’s nice that Python can do that too.”

Ugh.

Never argue with a pythonista.

Equating complex data structures with user-defined data structures (in the form of classes and fields and whatnot), and using the latter as the primary method of storing and working with data (so that you’re constantly having to bring into your mental scope a bunch of different classes and how they need to interact), is 100% a C++ type of program structure.

What does that even mean?

struct User {
    active: bool,
    username: String,
    email: String,
    sign_in_count: u64,
}

How do you define that in Python? Just a dict[str, Any]?

Maybe there are OOP domain things where a lot of variables are objects of some kind of class (sort of more of a C++ type of program structure),

Complex data structures are not “more of a C++ type of program structure”. And if you’re using dict for complex datatypes I weep for your source code. Even C has a struct for representing records of data.

The hate is ridiculous as is the hype.

It’s a new tool that is often useful when used correctly. Don’t use it to write entire applications - that’s a recipe for disaster.

But if you’re learning a new language it’s amazing. You have an infinitely patient and immediately available tutor that can teach you a language’s syntax, best practices, etc. I don’t know why that would make you “ill” besides all the shame “real developers” seem to want to lump on anybody who uses AI. If you’re not concerned about passing some “I don’t use an IDE” nerd’s purity test you’ll be fine.

🙄

Kinda… You mean mypy? I’m using that and the experience is not great… It’s okay for your own code but a ton of libraries are just 🤷 about types. Especially return types which is infuriating. What do you get from that call? Who TF knows - go read stack overflow and hope there’s an example giving you some info.

Plus I felt python was too new and would skip a lot of core programming skills id just like to know

Python was first released in the '90s. It’s older than C#.

That said I consider Python to be a garbage language. “Easy” to use for trivial things, a pain in the ass if you have more than 500 lines of code. The lack of strict typing makes even the most trivial of refactoring an all day task.

Not everything we learn needs to be surprising.

I use VMs a lot for desktops doing development work. It’s certainly possible, with some caveats. Here’s a bit of a knowledge-dump that may be helpful.

Multiple displays can be tricky. If you just want a single monitor you’re fine. But hypervisors have varying support for more than one display and some do it better than others. VirtualBox had the absolute best support for it. Hyper-V has “support” for it but only really if you use their preferred Ubuntu install. I’m not sure how libvirt handles it. Remote display protocols have varying support and can be options - rustdesk seems to support it very nicely (one window per display like VirtualBox) but I’ve had lots of keyboard issues with that.

Running VMs is less efficient, you’ll need more memory in the base system to handle each VM but it sounds like you’re pretty decked out there.

Access to hardware can be tricky. Hyper-V sucks at this - don’t use it if you can help it. I’ve never quite done gaming in a VM but I suspect this would be the most problematic. I have done libvirt pass-through of an nvidia card but only for video encoding/decoding with Jellyfin - which does work just fine. But VM displays tend not to be well accelerated so I would expect other issues. As an example my hyper-v Linux guest can’t play video above a small resolution without the audio skipping and losing track.

I’d avoid Hyper-V entirely. It absolutely sucks as a desktop environment. It relies heavily on RDP “enhanced mode” for everything, has shitty support for hardware pass-through, etc. Just a complete fail.

VirtualBox was really quite good for a desktop environment - but Oracle is more lawfirm than software company these days. There are hidden license issues with using any extensions (for, e.g. accelerated displays).

Libvirt I don’t have as much experience with unfortunately. I’ve usually emulated Linux on Windows not the other way 'round.

This only works for simple workstation stuff, not for power users trying to get max performance.

This is quite untrue. I do professional development work in a hypervisor VM. It’s not “as fast” as native but it’s more than adequate.

As the saying goes, don’t throw the baby out with the bathwater.

Meh - I’m pretty confident this sort of rant is well worth ignoring.

That was long before I even noticed how disgusting people many Rust programmers are.

His entire argument is rather undercut by his grandpa-level ranting about “discord” and the use of JavaScript on rust forums.

You can do gaining in literally any distro. My pop install runs steam just fine.

Yeah, even a cursory glance at Wikipedia shows this is just wrong.

1 United States 2 Canada 3A-3X Mexico 34 Nicaragua 35 Dominican Republic 36 Honduras 37 Panama 38-39 Puerto Rico 4 United States 5 United States 7 United States

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle_identification_number

In fact, the wiki is a better read too.

Is there one distro that can do all these?

Yes, basically all of them.

Asking open-ended distro questions means you’re just going to get a list of people’s personal preferences stated as “facts”.

Not sure if it’s exactly what you’re looking for - but subsonic/airsonic/etc. can do on-the-fly conversions when downloading to mobile devices. There are several mobile apps available that will cache files locally as well.

Languages you’ve never heard of also started out as personal projects BTW.

It’s a single-developer personal project. What’s there to think about?