leviosa

Are there precisely 37 developers in that team??

Old habits die hard, that’s the first alias on my list in .zshrc!

Like how OOP was the best thing ever for everything, and just now 30 years later is proven to be actually bad.

Alan Kay coined the term 57 years ago and we have to look at the landscape back then to see just how much OOP has actually influenced pretty much all languages, including ones that distance themselves from the term now. Avoiding shared global state. Check. Encapsulating data and providing interfaces instead of always direct access. Check. Sending signals to objects/services for returned info. Check check check.

Windows shared libs could do with having an rpath equivalent for the host app. I tried to get their manifest doohickeys working for relative locations but gave up and still just splat install them in the exe directory.

Aside from that shared libraries are great. Can selectively load/reload functions from them at runtime which is a fundamental building block of a lot of applications that have things like plugin systems or wrappers for different hardware etc. Good for easier LGPL compliance as well.

brainfuck is a member of an exclusive club of languages where it’s much easier to write a compiler for it than to read a program written in it.