IFTTT is very limited compared to programming, but it's super convenient for adding functionality to a smartphone.
For example, I have a task that unmutes my phone if I miss a call. This is really handy functionality for me, and doesn't exist in the phone app itself.
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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?
A deep dive on ABI design tradeoffs, and how Swift approached the problems in this space;
https://gankra.github.io/blah/swift-abi/
(Compared with C++/Rust, it avoids monomorphisation and does more boxing, with attention to details that affect performance)
Displaying syntactic diffs is a really hard problem. GumTree has instructions for using it with Docker, so it's easy to try: https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree/tree/main/docker#usage
I compared some C++ with difftastic. GumTree does pretty well in the first case, but it's highlighting too much in the second.




