JavaScript hit peak feature and nobody noticed
The language added so many tools in the last decade that the community stopped caring about new syntax. That is a good sign.
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Someone built a browser playground for ML-specific programming languages
A live playground for experimenting with domain-specific ML languages, no install required.
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Python is becoming Pinyin
Reuven Lerner argues Python's syntax sugar is making it harder to explain what code actually does. He compares it to Pinyin romanisation: useful for getting started, obscuring the underlying structure.
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