I think there is a way to do syntax extensions cleanly, with a special block type like `'{ }` that gets tokenized and passed to a comptime function skipping the parser. But one of Zig's main selling points is no hidden control flow and they want to keep it that way.

That does mean banks can't know if you lie by omission and hide some unpaid bills, but they can raise the evidence requirements to compensate and I think everyone deserves a second chance.

The amount of housing in the city won't grow but it will free up a big part of peoples income that would otherwise go to landlords. That helps the local economy with more consumer spending, and makes it easier to save up or apply for a loan so you can start a business.

You get a better economy and more money in the average persons wallet without raising taxes. The only ones who lose are commercial landlords, and they will stay profitable by design so it's easy to shut down any complaints. And you get better quality apartments as a side effect because the only way to get more money out of existing properties is to spend more on fixing them.

The purpose of a government is to serve its people, not make sure every business gets the same conditions at all costs. Picking winners and losers is fine if the losers still have a chance to beat the winners when they're really better.

If someone makes a free PII detector better than Rampart I bet the US government will either switch to it or make Rampart v2. For now it's enough. Perfect is the enemy of good.

There is definitely some exaggeration around timelines (2030 instead of 2027) and the industry has a cartel but most of it is real demand. From AI companies that don't have the money to pay for it and probably won't ever receive actual shipments but they locked down contracts ahead of time.

The only way to replace plastic is work hard on making different materials that beat it in every way and scale them up with massive state investment. Then you're fighting multinational companies, neoliberal economists, anti tech green activists, skeptical scientists and corrupt politicians all at the same time.

It's like an architect designing a building. The drawings are not art by themselves. They need to represent the design in a way that's faithful, precise, easy to understand for anyone with experience, logically structured and easy to update if any requirements change. That is code. If you write bad code your app will be slow and hard to develop further, but it doesn't make the whole thing bad because the code is not the software.

The physical structure is also just another way to represent a building, the one people actually interact with in real life. That is the binary you give to your users. But the art is in the design that came from the mind of the architect, not the drawings or the steel and concrete. It's the thing no machine can replace because it's completely subjective.

UX and graphics is art. API design is art. These are the things that matter and none of them depend on you personally writing the code, or how the code looks at all.

You can treat your code as art and spend months making it look perfect. There's nothing wrong with that, and if you decide to do it then your code will probably end up being better quality too. But you can't pretend it's the only way.

Pure peanut one is great for cooking if you want a neutral taste but I would never put it on bread it's disgusting.

I bet a lot of this is psychosomatic, you expect some food will give you fast energy so your body thinks that means you need it and releases insulin.

You would expect them to integrate Deno with Workers, make a new official managed service that would probably become profitable in no time with Cloudflare's cost optimized infra, or at least commit to basic security fixes until the community finds new maintainers.

What they pulled off instead is the most toxic form of acqui hire ever invented.

Or I'm misunderstanding your comment and you believe fiction and social constructs are one and the same, and maybe more real than the physical world. I could get behind that.

The only ones who don't are murderers, gang members, drug dealers or whistleblowers. The American legal system judges crimes on how far from "normal behavior" they are, not how much harm they cause.