🧉 Martin So, what's everyone up to today? In my remaining few months of "funemployment", I'm working on a language-learning app idea and hoping to get something out there before I run out of time.

🟣 Ox Working on learning Nim

🧉 Martin Nim looks interesting. It's as if I've seen it become much more popular in the last few years, but until I just checked, I had no idea it's actually 12 years old.

🟣 Ox It is pretty fun, similar to C++ or Go in function, but feels a little more "scripty" and less cryptic to write.

🧉 Martin Most of my backend code these days is Go. I like it because it's so minimal. While it's sometimes frustrating to not have various fancy language features, I like that it mostly stays out of my way and feels pretty "boring". Meanwhile my frontend's node_modules is a trillion GB and I feel compelled to keep a fire extinguisher nearby when I run the bundler :)

🟣 Ox Go is very handy, for that reason, because you can hand the code to someone without explaining and they know right away what it does. Boring is okay, I can agree with that, especially if the alternative is a sprawling tree of interlinked dependencies.

🧉 Martin Agreed. On the other hand, sometimes I really do just want more expressiveness. It feels weird to be using a modern language and not be able to (easily) write a simple map or reduce over some data. It's a tradeoff that mostly works for me personally, though.