Yeah, those are mostly showing off. They’re not really what I’m getting at, either. I more want to challenge people to make useful things simply.

And yes, there are ways that JavaScript can be used to give users a faster and more streamlined experience. The web as it stands is so far past that justification. I swear there’s lots of “full stack” devs that haven’t a clue how to make a site without React.

I’d like full stack developers to try something. Next time you have an itch for a personal project, see if you can make it with no frontend JavaScript. Just some CSS and HTML forms. All templating handled on the backend. Just try it and see how far you get. Don’t worry if it looks like a GeoCities page.

Then try finding places where JavaScript would make it more responsive or better UX in some way. Does the back button still work? Is it actually faster? Does it provide any benefit at all?

Maybe it does, but just try.

AWS has a multitude of different offerings with confusing pricing structures. They have zero incentive to make them understandable.

That said, chances are your new company has people who understand this already and know how to manage it. Hopefully, they’ll put up some guardrails that prevent you and others from running up a big bill. I wouldn’t expect a junior programmer to know how to do this, but that’s ok as long as the company is managed right. Granted, that can be a big if sometimes.

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For raw computation, yes. Most programs aren’t raw computation. They run in and out of memory a lot, or are tapping their feet while waiting 2ms for the SSD to get back to them. When we do have raw computation, it tends to be passed off to a C library, anyway, or else something that runs on a GPU.

We’re not going to significantly reduce datacenter energy use just by rewriting everything in C.

That would be the natural assumption, but Sun didn’t do it. I think there is a logo for books, but not one by Sun/Oracle.

Branding fail so bad that everyone forgets that Java even has a mascot.

Always have to remind myself of this when managers ask me if something could be done. If it’s easy, I naturally get a little annoyed that they’re even asking. But knowing that is my job, not theirs, and it’s good that they ask. There’s lots of places where they assume and things go badly.

That house is in the “so bad, it’s good” category. Vibe coders can only aspire to such things.

Dirty Grandpa. The critics who didn’t like it should be thrown into a river.

Aubery Plaza legit wanted to fuck Robert De Niro and it shows.

Honestly, I don’t really get it. I watched it long after the hate hype had died down. I was prepared for completely awful. I got just sorta bad to OK.

No, I’m trying to get people to think. If I laid out my full opinions on this subject (compilers and interpreters aren’t that different anymore, even machine code often runs more like bytecode in many ways, “scripting” is a term that hides what’s actually going on, etc.), then people get into endless debates. My questions are designed to pick apart assumptions.

Admittedly, people didn’t appreciate when Socrates did this shit, either.

Hell, they’ll probably put that on a resume, and someone will hire them.

Scripting languages are often considered to be very high level and can commonly run without compilation. Making them great to automate tasks or create a simplified interaction/abstraction layer to a more complex program.

Then Python is not a scripting language.

Programming languages usually have much lower level access, and by extension they tend to be more complicated. In exchange for that, you get much more control.

Would you consider C to be more or less complicated than Perl?

Yeah, once you know all the details, the distinction disappears. The term doesn’t clarify understanding.

If I had to make a distinction, it’d be that scripting languages are meant to be a simple way to serve a specific niche. Things like SQL or Excel formulas. It doesn’t apply to Python.

What’s the difference between a scripting language and a programming language?

Python: I’m so readable that I’m practically executable pseudo-code

Also Python: if __name__ == '__main__': . . .

I’d say the term “procedural” itself is an issue. Pretty much any language can be done that way if you choose. IIRC, the creator of Clojure wanted Java to work more that way, and he did it by having a single class full of functions. It’s not a natural way to write Java, and that’s why he invented Clojure.

Procedural and OOP aren’t mutually exclusive terms. Most OOP programs are ultimately procedural in nature. Often, the only difference is that the first argument to the function is to the left the function name and separated by a dot.

The -i option is simply interactive mode. All commands still go through a compiler.