miniblog.

I see that *up has become an increasingly common name for toolchain installers: rustup, ghcup, even juliaup. I think Rust was the first to use this terminology? I'm curious how similar the different *up tools are.

One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic. It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!

I've really come to appreciate OCaml's notion of generics. It doesn't have subtyping, so e.g. you have an `int list` or an arbitrary `'a list`, but nothing inbetween. As soon as you add constraints like Java's `List<? as Foo>` it become incredibly hard to produce good errors.