Proposals for adding different emotions to the 💩 emoji have prompted discussions on the role of the emoji subcommittee and the priorities of the Unicode consortium: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/charliewarzel/inside-the-great-poop-emoji-feud
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I'm adding a += operator to my programming language, because writing `x = x + 1` is tedious.
This opens the tricky design question of which operators should support this. Is += and -= sufficient, or do you expect things like >>= and **= to be available?
I've written difftastic packaging instructions: https://difftastic.wilfred.me.uk/packaging_difftastic.html
The different distros have taken different approaches, so I'm trying to help with common gotchas — don't forget the man page!
Feedback welcome, especially if you've ever packaged something 🙂
It's interesting to see the "why not Rust?" discussions around the TypeScript news that they're using Go. It shows that Rust has reached a level of maturity that it's a default for some users.
Go does seem to be in a sweet spot for AOT languages with GC though.