`rm` is a destructive operation, but you can always alias it to move it to a trash folder.

File managers have nowhere near the flexibility available in the terminal.

I’ve found Macs to be good for most dev stuff with the exception of non-Dockerized C++.

Unfortunately I do a lot of C++… I hate the hoops you have to go through to not use the Apple Clang compiler.

Yeah, C++ is only a side actor on Apple since Mac OS got replaces with NeXTSTEP, Copland was C++ based, and BeOS as well, but Objective-C won.

Now with Swift, and the whole security legistation ongoing issues across several countries, Apple seems to only care to the extent it needs for their uses of LLVM, Metal Shading Language (C++14 dialect), and IO / Driver Kit frameworks.

They aren't contributing to clang as they once were, Google also not after the whole ABI break discussion.

On Windows land, it isn't much better, it appears that after getting first place reaching C++20 compliance, Microsoft decided to invest their programming language budgets on .NET, Rust and Go, asking the community what features that actually care about in newer standards.

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Implement-C23-...

https://developercommunity.visualstudio.com/t/Implement-C26-...

So it is going to be hard going forward, expecting the very latest features on the three major compilers, when the contributions get reduced.

When you are delivering mate in 1, the square still gets highlighted as being attacked by the king.

What you described is syntax differences. `=` is assignment, not equivalence.

I also TA'd 110 and I firmly disagree. CPSC110 teaches you to view a particular problem as a series of different possible states, and solving for those states (while placing an emphasis on seeing base cases and working up from there). Students learn about data structures like binary trees by the fifth week, and the ninth week they're already able to solve sudoku puzzles using generative recursion. We even touched on the n-queens problem towards the end of the course.

Racket serves its purpose well as a simple and fast to learn educational language; it's easy to see and understand recursion. It's also easy to see what the execution order of statements in your program.

I will say though that some problem sets were a bit brutal in terms of time taken to complete them.

Agreed. My main observations from students in my cohort were that those who viewed programming as a set of instructions struggled, whereas those who viewed the course material as a series of manipulations on mathematical objects grasped the material much quicker. In general, the course focused a lot on learning from first principles, which I appreciate much more nowadays.

Good ol' Gregory Kiczales

What does “perform slightly better than Llama” mean exactly? A model like this needs to be trained from scratch right?