Comments by "Lawrence D’Oliveiro" (@lawrencedoliveiro9104) on "The shocking decline of Stack Overflow" video.

  1. If a language reference is that complicated you need to have it handy for daily programming, then take that as a hint that the language is too complicated. I was able to internalize nearly all the core Python language after a few months of use. What I do refer to daily is the standard library docs (and docs for whatever other libraries I might need). Oh, and the page of the language spec listing the special method names.
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  2. But if it’s written in Rust, isn’t that violating Atwood’s Law?
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  3. 3:10 Subtly wrong answer. The length of a string is measured in code points, not characters. Don’t believe me? Try this: from unicodedata import normalize s = "naïve" s1 = normalize("NFC", s) s2 = normalize("NFD", s) print(s1, s2, len(s1), len(s2)) Output: naïve naïve 5 6
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