[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago

Literally the only thing that makes Maher not a conservative in the US is that he's anti-religon. In any other developed country, he's comfortably a right wing conservative.

Plus, regardless of political leanings, he's an asshole.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 38 points 1 year ago

6 in 10... in the UK. You'd be lucky to find that level of support in the EU for the UK rejoining.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

This is beautiful, really well done.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

Ease of learning is about all it has going for it these days. There are many many languages that are as easy to learn, but much more powerful and, frankly, useful.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

What language do you use that accessing an object attribute is the same that accessing a dict key?

Javascript / Typescript.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

I wrote VBScript for about 7 or 8 years professionally, starting in 2010. I don't miss it.

[-] Hallainzil@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The syntax is often terrible (how it handles escape characters, for instance) but there's usually a well-meaning backwards compatibility reason for that. It's also flawed in many many other ways (classes, package management, variable scoping just to name a few).

But god damn if I can't bash (no pun intended, har har) out code to do most things very quickly in it. It's a fantastically accessible language, and it's a lot more powerful than it gets credit for.

Hallainzil

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