@cwebber i miss vim/emacs flamewars, even the code everything in rust crowd is getting tired. It hasn't been the same since the great systemd war...

@cwebber go lobster.rs

It’s at least mixed

@cwebber and IDEs. Eclipse vs Emacs. Visual Studio vs Vim.

Or Code formatting rules.

I am missing those innocent times.

@cwebber Still interested in the former! Join us in #mgmtconfig on matrix if you want to talk about a special, weird, FRP-like DSL for automation! Implemented in #golang.

https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt/

@cwebber Definitely agree. The PL subreddit is still surprisingly readable (still reddit, of course..).

Nowadays the actually interesting "feeds" are the annual ICFP/POPL papers. Unfortunately some conferences like OOPSLA still got infested by AI slop.

@cwebber you damned elitist! With your standards and problem solving aptitude /s. Can't stand vibe coding, not sure I want to see The Next Big Thing that will be forced on everyone.

Also, everyone's an expert with AI yet I spend more time reviewing scripts and code than ever before. It's exhausting.

@cwebber I just realised for all these decades I've been choosing friends wisely. Rarely someone calls this shite but a "disinformation machine" or "glorified autocomplete" at the very best.

Well... there was a guy who being a Python programmer stated that he was "code reviewing and testing" a shit pile of JS he vibe coded in a week, but that project is now dead and the dude sobered up, so yeah, good times mostly

@cwebber

Well, I was just off in a Slack group talking about how if you insist that microservices are great because they force you to coordinate through well-defined interfaces, then you could just define and use interfaces in your programming language and skip all the cost and complexity of microservies.

The big general social networks do tend to chase fads something more than specialized groups do.

@cwebber Co-signed.