The PHP 1.0 announcement has aged pretty well! Rasmus focuses on simplicity, how little you need to get started, and the things you can build.
This convenience and pragmatism has been a major factor in PHP's success.
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My understanding of Rust Foundation and Rust Project has definitely improved following today's talk.
Rust Foundation: Handles financial, legal and bureaucratic stuff. Requires a supermajority of votes from both sponsors and the Rust Project.
Rust Project: Focuses on building.
The Turing Test focuses on distinguishing between humans and computers in a text chat.
There are lots of other domains where it's interesting to compare styles. Do we make different mistakes in speech recognition? How easy is it to spot a chess AI masquerading as human?
@aidalgol@icosahedron.website deadgrep focuses on:
* focused UI. By not using compilation-mode, there's no superfluous symbols or duplicated filenames shown.
* easy filtering. It's easy to change case sensitivity, search type, file type, etc from an existing search.
* minimum keystrokes. If you have an active region, it's a single keystroke (no directory or file type required).
