Hey there! For complicated reasons, some of which I will explain later, I'm in the middle of dong a pretty gigantic revamp to the Motte codebase. Right now, this means "fix a bunch of small bugs". Later, other things will be happening.
The immediate goal of this is not to massively transform the site or do a Digg v4/New Reddit thing. Frankly, if the site remained exactly the same (but with fewer bugs) I would be happy.
The long-term goal isn't going to be quite that static, though. The long-term goal is to set things up to allow more subcommunities, similar to how subreddits work. This will be a larger set of changes. These changes will not obsolete The Motte itself; I am absolutely aiming for a site that can comfortably keep holding The Motte. I've talked about this before if you want to go read about it - this is still the same plan, for what it's worth, it's just now being (slowly) executed.
I will be posting more, and asking questions about next steps, when actual site behavioral changes are in the queue. This just isn't that! This is infrastructure work.
tl;dr: The site backend may be a little wonky for a bit, sorry about that, please report any bugs.
(and mods, feel free to unsticky this in a few days if I forget)
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What's next, we're going to call programming languages ideologically captured based on whether they mandate a semicolon at the end of a line or not?
I don't think you'd be paying any mind to it if the language was the exact same but wasn't a hobby horse of autistic trans people. By the standard of actually allowing you to compile code that doesn't abide by the language philosophy, Rust is less authoritarian than many common languages because it hands you the gun to shoot yourself in the foot, or in the head if you please.
The semicolon at the end of the line is syntax, not semantics.
Me personally or people generally? Personally I could care less that it is the hobby horse of autistic trans people. That it is the hobby horse of self-righteous pricks who believe all other languages are "unsafe" is my concern.
Right no authoritarians would ever use explicit labeling of "badness"...
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Autistic trans people cause Rust, which is why the meme is "pleading to the borrow checker".
It's a more modern Ada, with all that that implies. I think it's the wrong language for something that should be used generally, other than using AI to transpose code you've already written into a language where speed seems to have been more of a priority (which is probably why the secondary meme is "pushing it everywhere, including places it doesn't belong", which is also emblematic of its creating demographic).
Languages that use ':=' (the penis operator) for variable assignment tends to be less useful for actual programming than those that just use =. This is because those languages were designed by human beings for actual work, whereas the ones that prefer := Do not put any effort into understanding how human beings write code.
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