French remained influential in the courts, higher education, and elite society long after it stopped being the “official” language. That last part is totally right.

Sure, but many of those words for specialised doctors came to English through French, not directly from Latin or Greek. And I don’t think that you can reasonably argue that English words with French origins aren’t by now a native part of the language. We use many of the same names in Dutch too, coming from French loanwords.

“ear-nose-throat” is commonly used in English.

And it kind of is like the medical field popped into existence in the 1700s.

The implication is that the person in the meme is

A position is the arrangement of all the pieces on the board.

Only stuff that starts off heavier than lead, and even then not everything, some decay chains stop at thallium instead. Cobalt, with atomic number 27, won’t ever become lead, with 55 more protons.

Nickel is not extremely edible lol

Compute can be outsourced to the cloud (not that I think that’s good, but it does lift the limit on small devices)

I miss orbs

Well sure, I guess you’re right, it’s definitely a bit subjective and some people have an easier time with some languages and ways of thinking than others for sure. And I didn’t really mean to say that it was totally super easy, but… no kind of programming is really super easy. It is quite different and that in itself has a learning curve.

My recommendation is for sure anecdotal, but I think the point about it seeming more difficult than it really is because people often use it for difficult stuff is actually true.

People really overstate it, it’s not that hard. It has a reputation of being difficult because people use it for difficult, low-level tasks, OS stuff, parsers, cryptography, highly optimised serialisation, but those things would be hard in any language. For a newcomer it’s, IMO, way easier than say C++, because it doesn’t have a mindbogglingly huge std lib with decades of changing best practices to try to figure out. To do simpler things in it is really pretty straightforward, especially if you’re already comfortable with a robust type system.

Really recommend listening to the “you’re wrong about” episode about her

That’s exactly what it is

Ok yeah I totally get how that would be a burden… But I wouldn’t like to attempt doing all that stuff in PHP ;)

What do you mean? You can just make some react/typescript template and fastapi server thing, or any of dozens of equivalents, extremely quickly. I’m by no means an expert on web stuff as I develop software for controlling machines, but we used the above for some internal services in my last job and I could get a clean and functional site running in a day with no prior experience. I get that for public facing stuff you’ll have some higher requirements but I couldn’t imagine those wouldn’t apply just because you’re coding in PHP…

Those people don’t exist, they are just an excuse for you to be cruel

but even if we had enough of that, there’d still be mentally ill people and drug addicts that would prefer to live on the street

How about we get there first and then you can hand wring about any of these supposed people who are left?

Ok boomer

I think it’s just what you’re used to. Imo it really matters that it’s keywords and not operator symbols - it’s meant to read closer to natural language. I prefer the c version when it’s ? and :, but I like them this way round when it’s if and else.

I think they’re probably Finnish given the “Apple (Suomi)” tab in one of the screenshots, and their incredibly Finnish last name on Mastodon. They don’t read right to left in Finland. Fair enough, Finnish isn’t read right to left.