firelizzard

After programming in Go for nearly a decade, the idea of going back to needing semicolons brings me pain. Rust seems cool, but semicolons 🤢

I’d rather spend my free time doing something I enjoy

Why? I see no reason to go through the hassle of learning yet another language when Go serves my purposes perfectly and I'm happy with it.

I’m a cishet white dude so I experience effectively zero discrimination directed at me, but I am on the spectrum.

I guess basically everyone I regularly interact with either is also on the spectrum or has intense interests regardless, or is used to people like that. Though TBF I have learned to not get intense if I’m in public talking to random strangers. But if someone asks me a question like, “how do computers work”, I will answer at great length.

If my IQ was higher than my body weight I’d be the smartest person on the planet…

Edit: I was thinking lbs, that makes a lot more sense in kg.

I’d stop being awkward if I could but I wouldn’t give up my intense interests. You?

I think the word you want is minutiae?

I’ve written programs in C. I’ve written programs in assembly, for x86 and for microcontrollers. I’ve designed digital logic and programmed it into an FPGA. I’ve built digital logic circuits with transistors.

I’ll still take Go over C any day of the week. If I’m doing embedded, I’ll use TinyGo.

That sounds like a great way to set yourself up for spectacular failures down the road

I thought there was security code to stop that kind of thing. Granted, it's been over 10 years since I've done anything with Java more than tinkering with Minecraft mods.

Objective-C does not enforce method access (e.g. private methods) at the runtime level. If you are sufficiently determined, there are no restrictions on what methods you can call, unlike Java or C# (AFAIK).