looking at mastodon instances
wondering how many dozen instances i could host per GB if ram was any close to correctly used
just don't start projects in ruby anymore please
okay also:
please don't python for large projects, it's nice but has the same issues even if less obvious.
please don't java, ever. it's like,,, no dont.
please don't javascript, but v8 is cool and efficient, it's just a bad tool.
go is average. i dislike the language and find it very uh well bad but it does the job and does it efficiently enough
please rust, please a lot of rust all the time, we won't ever need anything else when we get more rust done 🦀
@CobaltVelvet Go’s syntax is designed to be simple enough to hold in one’s head, which also means it has a feature set best suited to programs that similarly fit in your head
@CobaltVelvet on a serious note, I think Go’s creators are more than capable of designing a good language, they just lost faith in our ability to use advanced features when we collectively ignored all the work they did on plan9, Inferno, etc. in preference to their stuff from the 70s
@CobaltVelvet a consequence of this is that Go was made obsolete when they released the Bourne shell in 1977