A really fun function name in Common Lisp: the. It returns the value passed in, as well as checking the type. https://www.lispworks.com/documentation/HyperSpec/Body/s_the.htm#the
It reads rather nicely: (the integer foo).
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Go has an os.Root API that allows you to enforce all paths are subdirectories of a given root. It fixes users accessing foo/../../../etc/passwd and similar.
Seems like a really nice solution for a relatively common problem.
I'm surprised there aren't more tools out there for starting a new project with some default config files.
There's `cargo new` but it's Rust specific and very minimal. create-react-app is React specific.
The only option I know of is cookiecutter. Surely it's a common problem?
Writing type params with <> (e.g. List<Int>) seems the most natural to me: probably because I encountered that syntax first.
Between C++, Java and TypeScript I think it's the most common too.
List[Int] seems to be next most common (Scala, Python) but TIL Gleam uses List(Int)!