miniblog.

I've been learning some Common Lisp by writing some simple JSON munging programs. I'm sure it's not best practice — I should probably deserialise to CLOS automatically — but it's a nice way to get comfortable with the basics. It feels weird deliberately ignoring helpers though.

I hear people say that Go is often hard to search online (hence sometimes "Golang"), but the vast majority of language names are common words. Names with punctuation (C++, C#) are hard too. Is this a big problem in practice? "Perl" isn't a dictionary word, but it's an exception.

I still find C-style format strings to be more readable than Rust format strings. "Player %s has score %d" vs "Player {} has score {}". The former feels a little easier to visualise how it will look in practice. Have I missed anything? Every format string specification I've ever looked at is surprisingly big.