Sherclod Holmes @wallhackio@cat.family

@aescling Hi cat I am lending you this book. You have three months to read it while also working a full-time job. Afterwards you will be tested. If you cannot solve the equations of motion for a point mass in two-dimensions in a constant gravitational field using the Hamilton-Jacobi equations then you are Stupid and I will call you out on the public timeline.

As you can see it is not thick, so this is a very easy task.

@vaporeon_ @aescling

@vaporeon_ @aescling 314 pages

@vaporeon_ the languages I am not familiar with that I am most interested in learning are Haskell, OCaml, and Rust

unfortunately the deno devs use AI now so this has to happen in an alternate universe where me and @Lady forked an old version of deno and maintain a Good runtime

@Lucy you only laughed because you like jokeslop

me: programmers' tendency to use their programming language of choice puts development teams in situations where they put square pegs in round holes instead of learning new languages better suited to their problem. programmers should be more open to learning new languages

also me:

@vaporeon_ valid tbh

i hope the data science and stats people move to javascript so i can use only javascript forever

@anime_reference @vaporeon_ I still ended up using a small amount of python because matplotlib is just too good

@anime_reference @vaporeon_ I just really like JavaScript. Python would have been a "better" choice

@vaporeon_ I really enjoy javascript for scripting tasks because has lexical scoping and functions as first-class objects in a language with a C-like syntax, and unlike Python the lambda syntax is actually fun to write. So I can opt into functional solutions when they make sense, and it still has pretty good abstractions for traditional OOP for when it makes sense

And its surprisingly performant for a scripting language.^✝

✝ this accomplished through JIT engines which have a significant memory footprints and are only practical on modern architectures

@coriander fuck u

@vaporeon_ I wrote my stardew math script in javascripts ​​

@The_T exactly. some things are just best learned through experience

@vaporeon_ that's more specifically a web development crime than a javascript crime imo

@vaporeon_ lets all just agree to make peace by hating on C++

@Ghast art imitates life

@aescling like, if I gave you one of my thermodynamics textbooks a few weeks ago I'm not going to say that you have no excuse for not knowing what a partition function is. it takes months of dedicated study to read a technical text properly

@aescling this really isn't fair. It's a large book that I have not read in great detail