I've realised the big advantage of teaching OO with physical analogies. It's well accepted that OO isn't just about modelling the eworld.
Physical items are great for explaining subtyping.
You can view types as subsets, and Ferrari <: Car <: Vehicle is intuitive.
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Implementation chicken:
When there's an obvious feature gap in an ecosystem and everyone is waiting for someone else to write it.
I see this most frequently with OSS toolchains. Basic functionality in new programming languages is another common scenario.
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I'm debating whether `from foo import *` is a bad feature for my toy programming language.
Forcing `import foo as f` and later `f::bar()` is so much more amenable to local static analysis. You also don't get issues with name clashes.
It's certainly convenient though.
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I've released difftastic 0.70! In this release:
* Added Dockerfile and fish shell support
* Improved Dart, Emacs Lisp, Erlang, Java, OCaml, PHP,
Protocol Buffers and TOML.
* A bunch of display and performance fixes.