I’ll bet people said the same thing when Intellisense started suggesting lines completions.

They did.

And when errors were highlighted in the code rather than console output.

Yep.

And when high-level languages started appearing.

And yes.

That said, if you believed my mentors, we were barelling towards a 2025 in which nothing running on software ever really worked reliably.

So they may have been grumpy, but they were also right, on that point.

Ditto. I use Go for this kind of thing.

If YAML and JSON were gripping my hands for dear life, dangling off of a cliff…

I would let both drop into the abyss so I could spend more time with INI.

would Python really be better if it switched to braces?

Yes. A thousand times, yes.

That is amazing.

I don’t know what I just read.

If my website ever gets married, I’m going to invite this website to stand next to it as a bridesmaid - because it makes my website look pretty by comparison.

C# is only good as a scripting language in my usecase, and sometimes you want “hard-code” new features, not script them.

My recent experience with C# suggests you might have a much better time with it, than you think.

C#'s compile phases are nuanced and achieve surprisingly quick results, now.

If it’s been awhile since you used C#, you could be happily surprised.

Well said.

Here I am trying to wind people up and you’re responding with thoughtful nuanced consideration.

You make some great points.

I’ll add - for folks reading along - I do think a class is still almost always an anti-pattern, even with all the OOP class function and factory pattern stuff removed.

I also feel (as you referenced):

• Functions being forced to reside inside objects is just stupid.
• Factory patterns are horrible, because they mix config into program code, maximizing uncertainty when debugging

And also:

• Inheritance is almost always a worse idea than an interface.
• classes tend to have additional fancy tooling to make it easier to carry state data around - which is usually a bad idea

State data is a necessary evil in most programs.

I’ve found that most advanced class object implementations treat program state data more like a pet than a threat.

Sorry for the long response - I know you don’t need it - you know what kind of tool you’re looking for.

I figure they extra detail above might provide food for thought for folks reading along who are surprised there’s even contrasting opinions on classes.

(And I feel a little bad for not really posting anything very useful earlier in the thread.)

It amuses me that someone downvoted classes suck.

It’s an objectively true fact.

Today I learned GoLang has no class.

Neat! Thanks. Sincerely.

I’ve been coding casually in GoLang for years without noticing. (I don’t use classes, because classes suck.)

Apparently GoLang does at least have interfaces, which are like classes that don’t suck. That’s probably why I didn’t notice.

https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/class-and-object-in-golang/#

Yeah. The litigation risk is considered high right now, and no one wants to be first to try it.

Which I totally get. This place is largely run by volunteers, after all.

We saw similar hesitation in the early days of WordPress/Wikipedia/Drupal proliferation. Eventually those solutions greatly enabled sites like BlogSpot and Tumblr to become wild places, and niche sites to pop up for stuff that BlogSpot and Tumblr didn’t want to touch.

I can think of a few specific anti-spam and security tools that strongly enabled casual admins of WordPress to start sites.

I think we will see an erotic golden age once Fediverse moderation tools cross some unknown usability threshold.

Edit: I come across here as really excited about porn. Lol.

Art has a long history of being erotic, and beauty appreciation is one of the better things technology can do.

I am also really excited for the rest of the content that will thrive after demand for porn has pushed the technology to maturity.

I’m not sure what to do.

On Mastodon, I used the search function to shotgun random topics that interest me, and then followed all the hashtags on the posts that came up.

Over time, I started replacing following hashtags with following my favorite users who I discovered through those hashtags.

Then I started discovering and following their favorite users through their boosts.

Now that my feed is pretty much where I want it I tend to click “hide boosts” on anyone new that I follow, to prevent their every random amusement from cluttering my feed.

The end result is fantastic, but it took awhile to get there.

stopped talking to me once I said I didn’t have instagram, because it meant I was “hiding something”.

That’s awful.

Also, I guess they would think I’m hiding so much, considering the number of bloated awful services I’ve rejected.

You’re doing better than I am. I just bullshit them and say I’ll “probably check it out later.” By which I really mean whenever it gets reposted on a less shitty technology platform, in a few decades. But I don’t say that part.

Yeah! I think that’s going to sway in this place’s favor very soon.

I predict a glorious age of the very best curated pornography being here.

As other preferred platforms enshitify, I expect a lot of innovate erotic sensual and/or dirty artists (new and established) to have a dynamic, accessible, profitable experience here.

It’s probably going to be very horny, but also really beautiful in a lot of pro-social ways.

Privado CLI will produce a list of data exfilration points in the code.

If the JSON output file points out a bunch of endpoints you don’t recognize from the README, then I wouldn’t trust the project.

Privado likely won’t catch a malicious binary file, but your local PC antivirus likely will.

So you’re basically just paying for the snazzy case. Which is fine of course, but I think they could have done better.

Yeah.

I want to buy this sort of thing to support the overall vibe and product line, but $600.00 goes a really long way on Etsy or EBay for custom cases.

Edit: I am in the market for a desktop running something as close as possible to SteamOS, so I do love where this is heading. I’ll keep an eye on it!

It’s interesting.

I imagine this isn’t even theoretical, because a set of AI remastered Star Wars prequels is probably going to happen, and Disney is definitely going to claim to own it and to to suppress it.

I would answer your question, but it’s too much like a previous question, that someone else hasn’t answered yet.

If you put a git init --bare push/pull target on the removable drive, then all of git’s awesomeness will start working in your favor.

Git knows that a push/pull may switch from Linux to Windows and back. Git knows the remote won’t always be there. Lots of nice stuff, for removable drives, if you can make it work.

Git is really good at two things you are doing:

• tracking separate files in related but disconnected repositories
• backing thing up intermittently when access is available

I don’t know your exact scenario, but you’ve shared enough that I can confidently recommend:

• the files on each device that is removed and restored should in a separate repository
• you should at least consider using git init --bare somewhere in this recipe - you can put a remote on a removable drive, and use git pull and git push to sync to it