One of the best internal talks I've seen was a teammate demonstrating Docker in the early days of containers.
After explaining the concepts, he showed running `rm -rf /` in a container shell. The drama value made the talk way more memorable and concrete.
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In praise of Tcl, and reflecting on syntax features for a good command shell: https://yosefk.com/blog/i-cant-believe-im-praising-tcl.html
Playing with Claude and my new programming language has made me add features that it wants. I think they're reasonable.
`for method in methods` -- custom syntax error explaining that `method` is a reserved word
`echo 'println("hello world")' | garden` -- eval snippets from stdin
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?