BallsFactory ballsFactory = new BallsFactory();
ballsFactory.setSuckable(true);
Balls balls = ballsFactory.create();

The difference is that you won’t find yourself unable to send an e-mail because the admin of your e-mail server doesn’t like someone from the recipient’s e-mail server.

Do you have a link to the research? I’m a math educator and I’d like some good materials for encouraging my students.

I personally like Purelymail. Cheap and bullshit-free.

Betteridge’s law of headlines…

It means you’re compensating for the lack of optional/named parameters in your language.

When you want to print something, you can’t just Printf.printf x, you have to explicitly give it instructions on how to print a value of that specific type.

I’ve recently been trying to learn OCaml and find it really nice. The major pain points are

• C-style separate compilation with manually created headers
• Small standard library
• No generic print function
• Hard to use external libraries

Nim

What does Rust improve over its predecessors? The only really new thing is the borrow checker, which is only useful in very low-level programming.

C is the first language I learned and I think it’s a terrible language full of inconsistencies, footguns and unnecessary complexity.

Removed by mod

If you’re in the EU, request a GDPR export.

Nim

Not if the language is standardized from the start.

An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

All you need to know to get upvotes on Lemmy is “left good, right bad”.

Because until the Middle Ages, Europeans were afraid of the number 0.