my strongest opinion on programming languages is that postfix .await is the single greatest innovation in the past 70+ years of programming language theory and history and you can't convince me otherwise.
@zkat related: can i ask you for some rust advice?
@zkat I want to do non-blocking event-loop kind of i/o on stdin/stdout... should I use tokio or mio or what?
@ionizedgirl I like smol followed by a sync-std followed by tokio
@zkat trying async-std since smol says "NOTE: Do not use this type with File, Stdin, Stdout, or Stderr because all of the supported operating systems have issues with them when put in non-blocking mode."
@zkat ACK. So much easier to read and to chain.
@zkat im ready for postfix references
@zkat it's so very good
@zkat makes one question why did people need to come up with the prefix await
@zkat I want postfix macros ever since seeing them in Haxe
@zkat I want more postfix syntax features now tbh
@zkat like when it was first decided to do it that way I was like, this is weird and strange and I fear it, but once I started using it I now have grabby hands for postfix macros and the like
@StarKat99 yes!! It was very foreign and it made me uncomfortable and then I tried it and realized it’s the best thing ever
Hard agree. I wish I could get this in JavaScript with Babel somehow lol (https://jacky.wtf/2022/5/9lNo)