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Depends on your problem. Newer languages seem to have much better docs than in the old days, so languages like Rust, Go and Typescript seem very underrepresented by Stackoverflow activity compared to public Github activity.

Too recent. Let Gore win back in 2000.

Or at the very least avoid car ownership and overuse:

When you use a 3500-pound car to transport your 150-pound self around, 96 percent of the weight of that clump of matter is the car. You’re moving 25 times more junk around than you need to, and thus using 25 times more energy to do it.

Imagine that you’re hungry for lunch, so you go to a restaurant. But you don’t just order yourself a blackened salmon salad for $15.00. You order twenty five salads for $375.00! Then, you eat one of them, and leave the other 24 blackened salmon salads, $360.00 worth of food, to get collected by the waiter and slopped unceremoniously into a big black garbage bag. All that fine wild-caught Alaskan Salmon, lovingly seasoned and grilled. All the fine crumbles of feta cheese, the mango salsa, diced green onion, shaved peppers, rich zingy dressing, and everything else the chef worked on for hours – plopped into the slimy garbage bag. This is exactly what you are doing, every time you drive!

Of course, a lot of people, especially in North America, don’t really have an alternative, and they’ll be financially and bodily worse off for it.

Yeah, that’s what I do for complex stuff. Aliases are pretty handy too, but I use them for stuff like “v=nvim” and “vd=nvim -d”. Also one function for fd to “nvim $(rf -l $1)”

Here in Norway we have both ID (though a BankID app) and driver’s license through a driving license app. Not exactly hard to imagine the passport joining them.

The physical driver’s license isn’t dead, though having ID on your bank card seems to have gone away.

Yeah, there have been some cases of “pedo hunters” here; turned out to be a flimsy cover story for violent nazis.

It’s, uh, not a topic suited for thoughtless entertainment.

Uh, don’t we already have three? Dia-, ferro- and paramagnetism?

Yeah, I switched to deezer then, haven’t had any trouble with it.

Batteries seem to work fine in rural Norway. If you live somewhere warmer and/or with a bigger population or population density than Norway, you should be fine.

Ibelin. Saw it in the cinema when it first came out, seemed like everybody in the audience was crying.

(It’s about a kid with a degenerative disease who connected with people through an MMO.)

It comes off as simulating enums with strings.

And yeah, even the string interpolation seems kind of excessive when it’s just appending _address. Js is even kinda infamous for how willing it is to do that with +.

Yeah, translating between cases isn’t exactly a problem IME. Might be neat to have a case-aware grep though, so you can get kebab-case, snake_case, camelCase and PascalCase all done in one go.

Yeah, I’m reminded of how Germanic languages used to have singular, dual and plural. If we’d still had dual, we’d probably also be talking about not abstracting until we actually have a plural.

I mean, the fact that more than half-century-old COBOL continues to be maintained does speak to the fact that it is maintainable. That might also be part of what makes COBOL painful to the average developer: You’re not only dealing with a language that first appeared in 1959, designed for machines that were very different than modern computers; you’re also dealing with over a half century of legacy code, including all that means for Hyrum’s law.

Unfortunately maintainable and pleasant to work with are rather distinct concepts.

Eevee’s heteroglot entry for COBOL is interesting, coming from … practically anything else.

There’s also someone doing AOC in ABAP (basically SAP COBOL) who posts over in the AOC subreddit. I’ve looked at them and … mhm, I know some of these words!