Another fan here of ruby without rails. Run it in jruby and you can get some decent speed (I mean, relatively speaking). I think a lot of people who say they like python really like simple scripts that mostly call out to NumPy.

Back in the olden days, I put a phone on top of my computer. You know, the old kind, with a clapper that goes back-and-forth, driven by a magnet.

God I wish my work would let us do something substantial in elixir.

Erlang and systemd — the two most user-friendly and beloved technologies in the whole wide world :)

Man, if that game was anything like the arcade version, all you gotta do is throw backwards, elbows and wait for the credits.

I regularly work in Ruby, Java, kotlin, and now Python and elixir, and the tooling around Python is far and away the most frustrating of any of those experiences. I don’t understand how Python “won“ in the low–ceremony scripting lane with things as bad as they are.