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So… drop

• mettamage 1y ago
  What do you mean by that? Is `drop` a language construct in another language?
  • brigandish 1y ago
    It's also in this comment, which reads like Gen Zed slang. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012969 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44012969
  • dminik 1y ago
    Yes, it's called Drop in rust: https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Drop.html https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/ops/trait.Drop.html
• brigandish 1y ago
  Drop?
  • DemocracyFTW2 1y ago
    it's an annoying usage because you never know whether it means "sth new appeared" or "sth old stopped being available"
    • pacifika 1y ago
      Drop and biweekly
    • john2x 1y ago
      New drop just dropped
• lucasyvas 1y ago
  The more this stuff gets introduced the more I’m convinced to use Rust everywhere. I’m not saying this is the Rust way - it’s actually reminiscent of Python/C#. But, Rust does it better. If we keep going down these roads, Rust actually becomes the simpler language as it was designed with all of these goals instead of shoe-horning them back in.
  • CryZe 1y ago
    First it was "Why Do Animals Keep Evolving into Crabs?", now it's "Why Do Programming Languages Keep Evolving into Crabs?"
  • demarq 1y ago
    Not sure I agree or maybe we do. I think JavaScript should remain simple. If we really need this functionality we can bring in defer. But as a 1:1 with what is in golang. This in between of python and golang is too much for what JavaScript is supposed to be. I definitely think that the web needs a second language with types, resource management and all sorts of structural guard rails. But continuing to hack into JavaScript is not it.