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Thanks for these insights! Do you have any material or sources for a layman to learn more about this and where these numbers come from?



Like Alan Kay himself said, it wasn't about objects, but about messaging. [0]

[0] https://lists.squeakfoundation.org/pipermail/squeak-dev/1998...


Agreed. While I think matz is a great language designer, I loved Alan Kay's philosophy. I'd like some language that is OOP centric in nature, fast, has an elegant syntax and learns from erlang's model (elixir isn't it unfortunately, but some ideas it got right).


If you want OOP than, yes, Elixir isn't it... maybe Pony? Curious what else you don't like about Elixir though besides not being OOP... it's definitely got messaging!


A robust static type system is what was missing for me, at least last time I looked.


Static typing and messaging (OOP) don’t exactly fit together. If you want OOP, you are fundamentally beholden to dynamic typing.


I don’t want OOP. I just want the language to include a system for imposing constraints that prevent entire categories of bugs and make it easier to safely do large scale refactoring.

It’s really hard to go back to living without this once you’re used to it.


Coq, Idris, et. al. are over there if that's what you really want, but there is probably good reason why no "real world" programs are written in languages with proper type systems.

For one, there's little ability to avoid message passing in our modern world. You can take it out of the language, but that just means pushing it to another abstraction (e.g. sockets), and all the same lack of type safety comes right back.


Literally the first sentence: More than half of the European Union’s (EU) electricity came from renewables in the second quarter of 2025, and solar is leading from the front.


Are there also already analyses of these die shots, explaining what be concluded from them?





Oh and in the past people had diseases whithout a vaccine and sometimes got immunity (and didn't straight up die), hence vaccines are not needed? The logic in this comment is poor.


For all the others seeing the HN Hugg of death :)

https://archive.is/oa81K


Crazy to see STH get the HN hug of death!

One would think they get sizeable traffic as-is.


The linked tweet is offline, but it's probably about this? https://x.com/esjesjesj/status/1943025702757924963?s=52&t=9h...


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