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I tried Chocolatey first, but ended up using Scoop after a while. It's been years so I can't remember why, but there was something about it that annoyed me enough to make the switch.

Oh, for sure. I do like using FOSS and Windows is my primary OS (for game compatibility reasons), but I'm saying that the number of Windows users who care enough about FOSS to seek out an F-Droid equivalent is very low, which is likely why nobody has bothered to build one yet.

If you want an answer to your question, spend your 3 seconds typing it into a search engine or AI.

Why not have the best of both worlds? Set up a repo with all the information, then run a bot that periodically updates a pinned post with the data from the repo.

From what I heard, Geely bought them and just said "here's a bunch of money, do whatever the fuck you want", and they suddenly started making good stuff.

I wish someone would do that to me, haha

5000 seems like way too much. That's roughly 1 every 15-20 seconds, including at night.

I would be interested to see what percentage of those are actual real interactions (e.g. DMs), which are general interactions (e.g. "XYZ liked your post") and which are marketing CTAs.

Refined Storage is a fun storage mod, I'd recommend trying it if you haven't already!

Speaking of the Minecraft hotbar:

1. Pickaxe
2. Shovel
3. Block
4. Hoe
5. Axe
6. Block
7. Bow
8. Torch
9. Sword

(if anything isn't present, it's usually replaced with a block or other item)

Does it make sense? Not really. Does it make building with more than a few blocks a pain? Yes. Will I still do it? Absolutely.
Modded items can help. Like the paxel, which combines the pickaxe/axe/shovel into one tool. That frees up some space for extra modded tools like wrenches and the like.

If you want bigger Factorio chests, consider the Warehouse mod, you can fit an ungodly amount of items in those.

Windows users generally don't care as much about using open source software, so there isn't really an audience for such a place.

For me, Scoop feels faster and I also don't have to remember/find the package name of what I want to install.

If I want to install Everything, I just type scoop install everything. I wanted Everything, it installs Everything. Easy. If I try winget install everything, no. I have to remember the author as well and type winget install voidtools.Everything. It's just a bit annoying.

Plus, I know where all my software is with Scoop. Windows installers love flinging files all over your system, but with Scoop they're all in the apps folder. It's not always the case, but I trust Scoop apps to stay where they are more than Windows installers.

this is a very old screenshot

What do you mean? It says "0 minutes ago"! Clearly it's very recent! /s

The trick is to use tools::WireBrush;. It helps immensely for cleaning up your code.

Frontend: TypeScript - You get the massive ecosystem of JavaScript with type "safety". You can get stuff done and prototype quickly!

Web framework: Svelte - While frameworks aren't languages, they still have their own ways of being written and worked with, much like a language. Svelte is a dream to work with, and I highly recommend it to anyone who is fed up with web framework boilerplate. (Shameless self-promo)

Backend: Rust - Something something blazingly fast. While it will usually take you a little longer to write than most other langs, you can rest in the knowledge that what you wrote is correct, safe, and fast.
C# also gets an honourable mention here. I've never not enjoyed working with it on the backend.

I've heard that the recent versions of Java are a lot more pleasant to work with. I'll probably still stick to C# though.

I don't think it's useful to hyper-optimize for Hello World

I agree. I was more referring to the various symbols which don't appear to have a clear purpose. They raise questions for me. Here are some of them:

• Why is helloWorld there twice?
• What's the ' for?
• What are the () for?
• Why is there an _?

I'm aware that you can just look these things up, but there's at least 4 mildly confusing things in something that is rather simple in every other language.

Take Rust for example. I've heard people say it's complex, yet it's printline still simple:

 rust

    
println!("Hello");

  

Coming at this with the same lens, the only mildly confusing thing is the !.

I'm not saying "how Hello World is written is the be all and end all of language complexity", but for a task that's so simple in basically every other language to look like that in Unison, it just doesn't fill me with confidence for the friendliness rest of the language.

Malbolge comes to mind too.

Oh god, they say it's a friendly language but their hello world is:

 unison

    
helloWorld : '{IO, Exception} ()
helloWorld _ = printLine "Hello World"

  

Glad I saw this since I just redownloaded Insomnia yesterday and thought "oh".

By the way, it's not required to log in. There's a button below the login form that lets you use it without signing up.

Mind explaining for the uninitiated?