Project Euler was what I used to get comfortable with my two main languages -- first python and then rust.

I loved to solve it and then look through all the different solutions and find pretty ideas and idioms.

Sounds like we need either a viable alternative or a next thing.

The next thing will probably be AR glasses and we could use some alternatives to Meta and Google and Apple.

Gardening automation :-D

If a friend told me they liked Rust but didn't like the borrow checker, I'd probably point them to Gleam and Moonbit, which both seem awesome in their own niches.

Both have rust-like flavor and neither has a borrow checker.

Someone should create a DAG of programming languages with edges denoting contextual influence and changes in design and philosophy, such that every time a PL is critized for a feature (or lack thereof), the relevant alternatives exactly considering this would be readily available. It could even have a great interactive visualization.

I can't really get over Gleam's position that nobody really needs type-based polymorphism, real programmers write their own vtables by hand.

(It also needs some kind of reflection-like thing, either compile-time or runtime, so that there can be an equivalent of Rust's Serde, but at least they admit that that needs doing.)

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Assuming this references Reinforcement Learning? If so... valid

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The more leverage a piece of code has, the more good or damage it can do.

The more constraints we can place on its behavior, the harder it is to mess up.

If it's riskier code, constrain it more with better typing, testing, design, and analysis.

Constraints are to errors (including hallucinations) as water is to fire.