@stuartmarks @jawnsy @rkatz soon we will see “xEP considered harmful” blogs

@infosec812 @rotnroll666 @jitterted also, even absent the disqualifying compatibility concerns, the $ syntax is just plain bad design. Having two different “escape” operations, especially when one uses a character that commonly shows up in real strings, is just silly.

@javahippie @rotnroll666 and also, that they assume that what they though of in the first five minutes didn’t occur at all to us in hundreds of hours

@bondolo my first thought was “rebar”

@steinchen no one is “making” you say “final” here.

@mralancooper Did he hand out cookies just so he could say "milken cookies"?

@mesirii ask on loom-dev ?

@swallez it’s the oldest story in computing: rejecting the complexity of an “overengineered” solution for something supposedly 80/20, and then reinventing the missing 20% incrementally and worse.

@tagir_valeev toast them in a pan and freeze them — they defrost quickly and then you have toasted pine nuts for every salad!

@heather there are whole stores for this!

@bondolo Feature idea: "annotations on modifiers"

@nipafx Never noticed all the "xAs" puns in JAAS. Will the sequel be NeinAs?

@bondolo But the JIT has your back.