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hyperhello ◴[] No.45767863[source]
> I wish it was the default, and mutable was a keyword.

I wish the IDE would simply provide a small clue, visible but graphically unobtrusive, that it was mutated.

In fact, I end up wishing this about almost every language feature that passes my mind. For example, I don't need to choose whether I can or can't append to a list; just make it unappendable if you can prove I don't append. I don't care if it's a map, list, set, listOf, array, vector, arrayOf, Array.of(), etc unless it's going to get in my way because I have ten CPU cores and I'll optimize the loop when I need to.

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1. worthless-trash ◴[] No.45769342[source]
If you write in erlang, emacs does this by default ;)