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  • You can make embarrassing mistakes in virtually any programming language that's not too esoteric.

    When I still used Python for prototyping (today, I usually use Go for that), it happened much too often that I did this:

     python
        
    if foo:
        bar()
       foobar() # syntax error
    
      

    In Lisp, however, both errors are much harder to make (not even considering GNU Emacs's superb auto-indentation - which is what most Lispers use these days, as far as I know):

     lisp
        
    (when foo)  ;; <- obvious!
        (bar))
    
      
     lisp
        
    (when foo
        (bar)
              (foobar)  ;; <- still valid
    (quux))  ;; <- also still valid
    
      
  • Dynamic typing is the source of very amazing errors, see JavaScript.

  • Feel free, it’s still out there!

  • I still write more Perl than Python these days.

  • Still easier to refactor than Python. ;-)

  • For all of those, Lisp is the more logical choice. Plus, whitespace as syntax is the worst possible design decision.

  • There still is no documented way to migrate an existing WordPress to PostgreSQL. The PostgreSQL plugin assumes a fresh installation, everything else is not assumed to be there.

  • It still is, as that’s what the developers use.

  • nextCloud becomes notably faster when you migrate from MySQL to PostgreSQL.

  • I rewrote the last remaining MySQL-based software of mine this year because I didn’t want to have MariaDB just for this one tool. Everything else had already been migrated. PostgreSQL is much faster in my tests.

  • Some of our customers rely on Oracle’s database system, because history. Sadly, we can’t teach them.

  • MySQL refugees = those who ran to MariaDB when MySQL was bought by 'Orrible and now need another new home. Accidentally, PostgreSQL has grown support for some of MySQL on recent versions.

  • I hope this won’t have any negative effects on PostgreSQL which will hopefully not have to cater the MySQL refugees now.

  • Awesome (although I never owned an Amiga myself)! Thanks for your work.

  • I know that this might be an unpopular opinion, but I don't really care about whether the software I use every day is open source or not, given that I rarely need to look into the source code anyway. (Do you?) Is the webRequest API about to be phased out?

  • Why would your trust in Mozilla have anything to do with using this browser?

    Browsers based on Firefox are at the mercy of Mozilla. If Mozilla once again delivers a new function that is directed against privacy, those who develop Firefox-based browsers must either deactivate this function or also deliver it. And this is not always clearly documented. And Mozilla has simply acted against my interests too often - I no longer even trust LibreWolf.

    (Leaving this aside, I also fail to see any advantage of Zen over Vivaldi.)