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I had the pleasure of attending the Making Smalltalk event at the @ComputerHistory today! Adele Goldberg and Dan Ingalls were there, plus some videos from Alan Kay. "One of the tests of a programming language: can you write a debugger in it?"

"everyone who thrives at coding is able to deal with mind-bending levels of frustration[...] It's not going to get any better, because the better you get, the harder [it] will be. But the pleasure that comes when you finally get things working is [huge]"

"the [Rust] compiler is the strictest I’ve ever had the pleasure to work with" Safety = Freedom