Neurodivergent devs: what languages actually *click* for your brain?
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@dylanisaiah @catboi29 Sorry to chime in from the sidelines: To me, #CommonLisp feels like home. I mean this seriously: This is my home language. I know and confidently use a lot of other programming languages, but whenever I use Common Lisp, I get a sense of calm, familiarity, warmth, predictability, and belonging that I don’t have with any other language. Common Lisp has, as far as I can tell, what Christopher Alexander calls the Quality Without a Name. Common Lisp is alive, it has a sense of history, of constructs that just work and fit extremely well together, of a living and breathing organism that takes good care of you and your ideas. Sorry to sound so esoteric, but that’s just how it is, for me at least…
@pascal_costanza @dylanisaiah @catboi29 Much the same for me.
Whereas Python feels like a messy desk, but worse—someone else’s messy desk.
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Neurodivergent devs: what languages actually *click* for your brain? Not popularity — what feels kind, predictable, low-cognitive-load? Why?
I'm building a framework for ND devs and want real experiences. Rust? Go? Odin? Python? Something else?
Tell me what works (or doesn't) for you.
#ActuallyAutistic #ADHD #Neurodivergent #Programming #Rust #Go #Odin
@dylanisaiah AuDHD here. Also a Common Lisp enjoyer.
I love the extremely tight feedback loop and how interactive of a development style you get with the language. How anything and everything can be immediately inspected and poked at in the REPL as genuine objects. I like that it's a standardized language, effectively frozen you don't have to deal with things like a new version of a language breaking things. The uniform syntax of Lisp (s-expressions) also aids in low cognitive load imo.
With Common Lisp you get a language that lends itself towards a functional style but firmly multiparadigm.
What usually doesn't work for me are languages that I can't interactively use. Using Common Lisp feels like I'm literally touching a program, molding it with my hands, meanwhile nearly every other language feels like simply staring at text on a screen.
See here for another perspective on Lisp as it relates to a learning disability in particular, extremely interesting: https://www.iwillig.me/blog/on-dyslexia-and-lisp/
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In my humble opinion, hosting instant messaging is something completely different than ActivityPub - due to the instant aspect of it.
With this, availability is a far more important aspect of it all. Hence the high available setup. Ofcourse, backups are just as important, but it shouldn't cause a full service outage in the unlikely event that one datacenter has a blackout.
You have given me your trust - and I want to do just by all of you. No matter whether you are messaging a family member about dinner or blowing the whistle about injustice.
At the moment in the upcoming two weeks when Exquisite.chat will be taking signups, I will be vocal about it. Thank you all - Exquisite has been such an awesome experience from the very start. And continues to be just that.
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Dorsey is a goddamn parasite
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@josh three years sounds reasonable especially if it's a no-brand. Are the batteries replaceable in your UPS?
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@bbfnart I have sporadically seen this kind of stuff, usually starting by this or that artist out of personal initiative, and I agree that it's an incredible way of discovering new artists (heck, I remember this even from the old webcomic days when everyone had their own website and this was one of the primary ways in which artists helped each other gain visibility). I guess that here the only way to get something like this started is to do the legwork? Hopefully your call gets heard!
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Announcing Exquisite.chat
Within the upcoming two weeks, Exquisite.chat will officially be launched. The first iteration will be an XMPP server - in a later phase more services will be added.
It does have a few twists:
Uses a hardened setup, powered by both OpenBSD and HardenedBSD. We have our own STUN/TURN setup so you can talk / video with your beloved ones.No logs, full encryption to benefit your (and our) privacy. It is setup in 'high availability' mode. Served from two different datacenters in the Netherlands (our main datacenter, DC1 in Amsterdam, but now adding Rotterdam to the mix) for increased resiliency. So, no clouds (oh hai us-east-1).And some more details that will follow shortly
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Might happen less frequently here but I still see people doing some over on the #
It would make me feel fuzzy inside if we could see more art community challenge on here
