Life is Tetris

Do try Delta Chat, and Sourcehut if you have more time. They use e-mail as a transport very well.

I believe relying on Github for an account, rather than on a not-yet-existing code commons organization, is the trouble. E-mail accounts are used left and right, and Sourcehut apparently makes it easy to collaborate on code via e-mail. Delta Chat even makes chat and webapps work over e-mail!

My ₹1. It may depend on what you plan to write in it (for fun). The BEAM sounds great for long-running processes, but not as much for point tools; Erlang and co supposedly run slower than Python, which isn’t fast either.

My other ₹ ;-) if you stick to the BEAM: OCaml sort of runs on it, as there is the Caramel project to replicate it (https://caramel.run/). One of the Erlang creators also ported Prolog to the BEAM (erlog), as well as Lua (erlua) and Lisp (LFE). Elixir is probably great, as it is inspired by Ruby (I found Ruby very pleasant, other languages have so much semantic noise).

Freebie! The BEAM inspired an inspirational design for parallel programming, the Pony language. I am somewhat sad development slowed down, it is a Rust killer.

Its all politicians blowing government winds in their own sails. The 2 companies minting money from ethanol blending are headed by sons of a minister.

By the vague looks of it, he has tried Rust for something he would use C for. His impression of Rust’s utility in that domain seems unsurprising.

Beyond that

I used to not question why we build anything other than “system software” in C/C++. Once I questioned that, I quickly got past the “Why not Ada/D/etc.” stage and reached the “why is so much of large software written in mid-level languages” stage. For anything bigger than, say, a Unix CLI tool, it probably is, and has always been, wrong to use anything at the level of C (C++, Ada, D, Nim, Rust, Zig, etc.).

This choice of language level for “application software” seems to be a commercial choice. The software commons is using such languages probably because contributors want to hone their job-oriented skills. It got better with Python and Ruby uptake in open projects. But, efficient, safe but simple languages, say, OCaml and Erlang, have been available for decades. Crystal is also looking good right now.