C is one of the few languages where using goto makes sense as a poor man’s local error/cleanup handler.

Kotlin is a really nice language with plenty of users, good tooling support, gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate that older languages have, and it instills many good practices early on (most variables are immutable unless specified otherwise, types are not nullable by default unless specified otherwise, etc)

But to get the most “bang for your buck” early on, you can’t beat JavaScript (with TypeScript to help you make sense of your codebase as it keeps changing and growing).

You will probably want to develop stuff that has some user interface and you’ll want to show it to people, and there is no better platform for that than the web. And JS is by far the most supported language on the web.

And the browser devtools are right there, an indispensable tool.

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can’t quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you’re not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

That will never work as long as they’re the only country in that situation. They would need to be mixed with athletes from other unrelated countries for this to make sense.

Well you don’t have to place it in a separate function, nothing stops you from inlining that part and writing li or whatever directly there.

It’s up to you how you organize your components.

But why bother with creating a new language, and duplicating all the features your language already has, in a weird way?

If I want a list of UI items based on an array of some data, I can just do items.map(item => 〈Item key={item.id} item={item} /〉), using the normal map function that’s already part of the language.

Or I can use a function, e.g. items.map(item => renderItem(item, otherData)) etc.

JSX itself is a very thin layer that translates to normal function calls.

Still better than whatever the hell this is

https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/template-syntax

The more you scroll down, the worse it gets.

And this too: https://vuejs.org/guide/essentials/list

A new separate language with features that already existed in the original language (and worked with all its tooling, etc.)

Custom template language and custom DOM attributes are way weirder than just using language-native constructs (ternary operator, map/filter, variables, functions, etc.) directly like you can in JSX.

This is a specific case where former immigrants are leaving in supposedly significant numbers.

Read the article, it works the other way for them.

Hamas is more foreign proxies than actual Palestinian people’s resistance though.

That’s how they get you to click it. Leaving out the part you want to know is the oldest trick in the clickbait book.

Either you are with us, or you are with the terrorists.

• George W. Bush

Iraq paid for those schools (a 2021 deal is referenced, where this was in exchange for oil - a fact the article specifically avoids mentioning).

This is essentially an article about someone ordering a product, paying for it, and getting it delivered.

This is supposed to be the “world news” community.

If it were that easy, this would have been solved everywhere already. A day or two is almost certainly not enough, you also have to do adjacent apartments (whose inhabitants probably aren’t going to be very happy, especially if they have to leave for the fifth time), your map can show that it affects like every other building (especially when it’s a large apartment block), the temporary housing is at risk of becoming infested too, which will make people fear being there, etc.

It actually sounds a lot like zero covid - simple on paper, you try it, you find out it doesn’t really work, and then you’re left with the choice to either change strategy or try to go harder and cram it through regardless.

What do you mean? Would they try to dust off their zero covid policy?

You mean like AirBnbs?

On one hand, this is definitely a gap, on the other hand, you are very unlikely to run into it in practice.

The whole “pass an array/object into some function that will mutate it for you” pattern is not very popular in JS , you are much more likely to encounter code that just gives you a new array as a return value and treats its arguments as read-only.

If you validate your data at the boundaries where it enters your system (e.g. incoming JSON from HTTP responses), TypeScript is plenty good enough for almost all practical uses.

Clickbait title.

The packages were collectively downloaded 963 times before they were removed. The rogue packages include names like “noblox.js-vps,” “noblox.js-ssh,” and “noblox.js-secure,” and they were distributed across specific version ranges

Is there any indication that anyone actually installed these, other than some bots that auto download all packages and such?

You would have to really go out of your way to get infected by stuff like this.

That being said, there are things npm could do to try to auto-detect “risky” packages (new, similar name to existing projects, few downloads, etc.) and require an additional layer of confirmation, or something like that.