The power of a completely introspective, mutable computer system, and how it fundamentally affects PL design: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16586347
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I've written a website that archives all my posts/tweets/toots/skeets across different microblogging platforms!
It's fun to be able to see similar posts that I wrote at completely different times. It also lets me edit links that have bitrotted.
Is there any relationship between language adoption and the size of its standard library?
These days it seems completely orthogonal, but early Java adopters spoke highly of the collections library compared with C++.
Maybe it's the widespread availability of package managers?
I've released difftastic 0.47! In this release:
* Language detection is now completely overridable. You can do things like DFT_OVERRIDE='*.json:yaml' to treat all .json files as YAML.
* Added support for the Solidity language.
