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Exactly. Also, it doesn't even mention the fact that when a crop becomes dis-organic (or unorganic), it's no longer food since the taste and texture changes somewhat. The change of taste is a good indicator that you're eating poison. Or at least, it has no health benefits. Organic crops may have pesticides too, but at least they are still health-giving food that may counter some of the effects of pesticides. With inorganic, you are hurt twice: the chemicals and then the food itself offers no benefits.

whats so excellent about it? i tried their ruby, swift and python tracks and i was left with a meh. i tried 30% of the Ruby path for instance and its just "do this" and " if you get stuck here are the docs".... and it calls itself " a learning path", there is nothing to learn.

What's excellent about it is that almost all exercises do not just include the problem statement, but also an explanation of Elixir syntax and standard libraries. There's also a ton of resources to in-depth resources. And there are extensive dependencies configured between exercises so you learn everything in a gradual way.

So all in all, a lot of love and effort has been poured into the Elixir track specifically.


I agree. It is human slop and as soon as it said REDDIT, I was like oh come on, I don't even use Reddit.

you sound jealous :)


That's an assumption. How do you infer that from written text? I can not infer that.

To me it is super-strange that one uses AI to come to the conclusion that language x is better than language y. In the past people spent some time using both languages for a while, before reaching any conclusion. With AI it seems insta-gratification or insta-evaluation now. I am beginning to see why Google ruined its search engine for real humans - those who control AI rule the world now. People aren't even noticing this how dependent they are becoming on AI in general.


My experience tells me. You are disagreeing with me, but you don't give negative vibes in your comment. The other comment sounded too negative:

<< I lost all interest >> << why would I bother >> << putting any thought into it >>

It could have been worded neutrally and still convey the same points of disagreement. Interestingly, look at their other comments, they are all contentious.

I was also experimenting psychologically, to see what reactions I would get.


what's so good about it? I bought it as well, but I have yet to start it (I'm stuck in some other books for now).


what a beautifully written essay!

no AI can write it like this.

the same will apply to software. You just wait and see the day when disclaimers like 'No AI involved' would be a signal of high quality, especially for software on which lives depend.


i can't make out the point of this article.


Me neither


Shit talking other people’s programming style to sell consultancy hours, basically.


"sweet spot for most things." care to expand on this a bit? Thanks.


Kotlin has the combination of JVM ecosystem, overall good performance and agents are good at writing it. I'd argue that it's a better default choice to reach for when working on non-frontend code than Go, though Rust and Python still have use cases.


Thanks, that makes sense. I agree.


Upvoted you, because the downvotes from the Python cult are unfair.


Haha thanks. Funny thing is, I’ve been a long time Python fan, learning it in 2001 and using it extensively for a long time. But then I learned Clojure, Typescript, and recently Rust and I’ve found Python to be quite flawed. But it sure does have a cult following.


:) I use Python as well-- so i am not anti-Pythonic in any strict sense. However, I don't like culltification of technology, be it Python or whatever else. Have you tried F#? It gave me a very good experience.


Only briefly for fun (and OCaml too but very long ago). F# does seem like a language I feel I could really like, though.

I’ve tinkered a little in Gleam and Elixir too. Elixir was incredibly enjoyable, and Gleam is a wonderful language that I wish I could work with more, but I don’t really have a use case for it and nobody will pay me to write it…

Back in 2009, I also spent a few months playing with Factor (before switching to Clojure because despite Clojure being niche, Factor was even more so). It was an interesting and somewhat mind bending experience.


fellow ADHD here. Rust feels like 'oh come on you want me to type all that?' I find Raku great, though


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