miniblog.

I've seen "cons cells" and "cons pairs", but today I saw "conses", which is new to me. (Clearly Lisp has no downsides, only pros and cons! 🙃)

It is remarkably hard to escape command line arguments safely on Windows, and the standard libraries of multiple languages have needed patching: https://flatt.tech/research/posts/batbadbut-you-cant-securely-execute-commands-on-windows/

Sometimes programming tools are so good that you miss them when using other languages. I see these mentioned the most frequently: * IntelliJ (for Java) * Slime+Emacs (for Common Lisp) * Pharo (for Smalltalk) I'm struck that they all have bespoke UIs.