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Four Years of Jai (2024)

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166 points xixixao | 3 comments | 15 Apr 25 23:17 UTC | HN request time: 0.648s | source
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Pet_Ant ◴[18 Apr 25 10:17 UTC] No.43726614[source]▶
Honestly the tone of the article was so smug and condescending that I couldn’t finish it.
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1. cynical_german ◴[18 Apr 25 10:27 UTC] No.43726666[source]▶
wow... I did not get that _at all_ ; opinionated maybe, do I have to share all these opinions to the degree to which they've been expressed? No, but condescending? To whom? To duck typed languages?
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2. tialaramex ◴[18 Apr 25 12:46 UTC] No.43727554[source]▶
It's condescending to the people who've noticed they make mistakes and so value a language which is designed accordingly:

"So, put simply, yes, you can shoot yourself in the foot, and the caliber is enormous. But you’re being treated like an adult the whole time"

That is, those of us who've noticed we make mistakes aren't adults we're children and this is a proper grown-up language -- pretty much the definition of condescending.

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3. unclad5968 ◴[18 Apr 25 19:23 UTC] No.43731125[source]▶
I can't tell if you're joking or not, but if you aren't, no one is calling you a child. The article is obviously saying that the compiler doesn't stop you from doing dumb things, which is a privilege generally only extended to adults. Nobody is saying anyone who makes mistakes is a child.