OCaml map signatures are really weird when coming from a Java/C++ background.
For example, Java's Map<Integer, String> typically becomes string IntMap.
I don't yet have any intuition on the different tradeoffs.
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LLMs are a really accessible machine learning technique. I dabbled with text classifiers a few years ago and the APIs were way more involved.
(system_prompt: String, input: String) -> String
I can prototype with this much more easily!
Coming from JS or Python, imports in Rust feel weird. They're entirely optional aliases for fully qualified symbols, which are always available.
I don't know of many other languages where you can just start using libraries. Java is the only one I can think of.
I've been using "Expected Int, but got String" for my type error messages, but I've been wondering if I could do better.
"Expected Int here, but this value has type String" or "This expression requires Int, but the value is String".
Do you have a favourite?