solosoyokaze

A language that is functional from the ground up can be very beautiful, concise and a pleasure to program in. I agree with you though, that bolting functional programming onto Go will make it worse. Especially with the millions of lines of legacy Go code out there, it would essentially become an entirely different language.

> There is nothing preventing people from writing their own reduce() in their own utilities package, and I expect a thriving ecosystem of "even-more-functional-constructs" packages to spring up as soon as generics hit stable.

I really hope this doesn't happen because then you have random utility libraries that "infect" projects for what is essentially basic flow control. I would say stuff like this is best supported in the standard lib and not home rolled.

The idea of a bunch of right wing reactionaries using ultra crappy Web 2.0 project management software out of spite is actually rather amusing. There’s not enough of you guys to keep it alive though (not that you really did this).

You can’t live without shelter or medical care.

Bluecheck Twitter we’re the only people using Basecamp in the first place. They just destroyed their core market.

Most companies do actually evaluate their vendors. Basecamp built a brand on “management” and just proved they’re maybe the worst in the industry at it. Only on HN are people supporting them. It’s a dead company walking.

The founder’s egomania and the customer name list. I’m not going to give a company run by people stupid enough to put a bullet in the head if their own startup, any money.

They’re not just hemorrhaging employees, they’re hemorrhaging customers too. I know I will never give them money.

This looks like a fatal blow, not a place someone would want to work. I’m sure they’re hiring though so you could probably get a job there and ride it out to the end.

> The rest of us are being crushed by inflation.

The top 1% are making more money than ever before. If you're holding assets impacted by inflation, you're doing quite well now.

If we take it as a given that in a modern, humane society no one should starve to death on the street and everyone should have access to the basics of survival, then the answer to the labor "shortage" is simply to shift some of the historically record breaking wealth inequality back down the org chart from the executives to the roles that need filling.

I pay taxes and I'd be super happy if my money went to support people in this country without jobs. It would lower crime and increase the quality of life for everyone living here. I could also be one of those people someday.

Unfortunately many of my tax dollars go to fund a military I find ethically abhorrent instead of improving the quality of life in the US.