• ferralcat@monyet.cc
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    11 months ago

    Languages with null in them at all anymore just irk me. It’s 2023. Why are we still giving ourselves footguns.

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      11 months ago

      Because you can turn null into an Option monad with a small amount of syntax sugar and static analysis

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          9 months ago

          Oh yeah I forgot, first you have to make a blog post, then a devlog, then review the top 10 best features of JS es6 (9 years after it was released…). Then shitpost on social media network for the other half of the week, and boom! You’re officially a Master Programmer!