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I just recently started using Babashka and it is great, excellent productivity boost for text manipulation scripting tasks.

My last job was mostly C++, my current job is mostly Clojure but I still do a lot of C++ stuff on the side as it is appropriate for some of my side projects.

Clojure is so much nicer to work with and this really resonates with me; I'm always still having to check language docs for C++ stuff but only very rarely for Clojure. Being able to keep almost all of it in my head is a huge benefit as I don't have to break my "flow" nearly as much.

This was my first thought when I saw the screenshots of it being sad that it had no memory. One of my favorite shows.

Children sticking around isn't the only option. My mom intends to follow me once I've found a place to settle down in the next few years. I'll give her extra money which should allow her to live quite well on top of what she has saved and she's already expressed interest in helping with grandkids if I have any (I probably will at some point).

Obviously this plan is made much easier by remote work and good earning potential for tech workers and I suppose some parents will be more attached to where they currently live than my mom is. But multi-generational is not outright impossible, I'd wager a significant chunk of the population could pull it off to varying degrees in one way or another.

I think they mean apps that don't just stop working when you're offline, not apps that are always offline.

Seconding avoid benzos, nearly saw them destroy someone's life and it seems like doctors prescribe them way too easily.

Yeah I meant together, I didn't make that obvious at all. I still think that is a far cry from "no commercial use" though.

I agree it seems a little odd, there's probably some kind of a bias for people using those languages being more likely to answer the survey.

Eh what? My last job was at a bank, not exactly known for having the most interesting tech. They had several teams that used Scala and I've seen a lot of job listings for roles using Scala.

Haskell and Prolog slightly less so but at my current job (mostly Clojure, which is even less popular than Scala and Haskell according to the stackoverflow dev survey) we do have one guy who prototypes stuff in Prolog sometimes.

In fact according to the SO dev survey Scala and Haskell are used by almost 5% of professional developers, almost as much as Swift which is hardly seen as a language with "effectively zero" commercial use. They also rank a lot higher in the salaries section than many more popular languages. And I don't know how recruiters think but if somebody lists that they know Haskell on their resume and are applying for a JS job I'd assume they can learn JS pretty quick.

I tested this on FF/Chrome/Safari on an M1 Max, couldn't see any difference at all between FF and Chrome but on Safari it was incredibly slow (which actually let me drive the car, that thing turns fast). I also wasn't aware prior to clicking that it was even possible to create web apps like this.

Just to be clear I'm not trying to equate child abuse to circumcision or view them as morally equivalent, I just don't think its a stretch to call circumcision mutilation, even if it generally isn't intended to be harmful.

I'm not trying to equate circumcision with child abuse. Most people having their kids circumcised aren't intending any harm, although some proponents (looking at you Kellogg) did believe that it caused harm and promoted it for that purpose.

Chopping off body parts without consent? Really? It isn't as bad as FGM but I think it could definitely qualify as mutilation even if it is socially acceptable in the US and Jewish/Muslim communities.

Yeah I think you're definitely right wrt the attitude big studios are taking with their games these days. If they swap to mobile they might pick up a different audience but someone will have to fill the void with quality PC games. If Finnish and Japanese (and small US) studios fill that void I'm totally A-OK with that personally.

> I should quit playing games

Sadly I'm right there with you... life has gotten too busy and most of my old gamer friends have moved on to other games that would require a huge time investment to get up to speed in. Now I just play casual games with IRL friends and my brother, haven't played a PC game in ages. Fingers crossed for Starfield though.

> PC and console gaming have been shrinking relative to mobile gaming in recent years

Is mobile gaming actually taking customers from PC though or is it just growing faster because there are a lot of accessible casual games? I know a lot of PC gamers and I can't imagine any of them swapping to gaming primarily on mobile. I don't know any people who are hobbyist mobile gamers.