Think of it like Haskell’s cast from the Typeable class.

Yes, if somebody sends random stuff, you’ll have to handle a failure, or do the equivalent of returning undefined, what is way easier than properly handling it in TS. What you do from there is up to you.

Not really. The things where C++ used to shine are usually best done in higher level languages.

Rust is a great C replacement.

Well, the author is to blame for the choice of language.

That is, unless somebody forced their hand. What happens a lot in professional settings. Then it’s that other person to blame.

There are only 10 types of people:

the ones that expected a binary joke, and

the ones that expected a ternary joke, and

the ones that expected a quartenary joke, and

…

Nah, nobody wanted to see Russia fail. But he moved fast, and the rest of the world was dealing with a big incoming stupidity too.

Nor care to have those reasons in the first place.

And if you press them, you get complete bullshit reasons. But SO will also ban you, while ChatGPT only cares about you paying.

Nah, plenty become open gas lamps before that.

Missing a detail happens to everybody.

It’s not flying anymore.

Some of the first mechanical calculators were created to predict tides (~3 centuries ago), because they are a really complex thing that the popular explanations completely paper over and pretend it’s simply the water keeping pace with the Moon.

It’s not an UFO anymore if you catch it.

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Do not drink the liquid mirror!

I repeat. Do. Not. Drink. The liquid mirror!

have to check and destructure the result of every function call

Learn how to use enum error types, how error bubbling works, and how to convert between Options and Results.

It’s Rust you are talking about, not Go.

the government owning and controlling industries and services

Are you trying to define communism here? Because it’s not exactly that either. And socialism is absolutely not that.

Hum… The name of that way to organize your bills is “socialism”. That is, unless you restrict who gets access to it.

Oh, I memorized most of it too. And it has always been almost completely useless.

But even though kids this days are spending almost all their time at school, this is something they are not losing time with.

It hasn’t been common in Brazil for many years already.

Things change.

Following the modern C conventions, the text following the series of (gnu) doesn’t matter and you can write anything you want there.

Microservices:

Several instances of the top panel each doing one of the steps on the bottom panel.