The borrow checker makes things a bit more complicated to get running, definitely takes some getting used to when you come from a non-memory safe language. But the compiler is really helpful throughout almost all mistakes, often directly providing an explanation and a suggested fix. One of my favorites programming experiences so far

Dwarf planets sometimes have moons (e.g. Pluto)

Only protest where no one is inconvenienced and you can easily be ignored, mkay?

What’s fucking bonkers is car infrastructure. Highways trap me in place all the time when I want to talk a a walk or cycle.

It works in the browser

Network effect. It’s been hard enough to get friends and family to move away from Whatsapp, it’s going to be a while till I get them away from telegram as well

2km/s Δv can get you a mun roundtrip at least, once you’re in orbit

Some programming languages are indeed cursed (e.g. JavaScript). But for the most part I agree, it’s what people do with it. But what’s cursed with python is what idioms have become common place.

that is so cursed

And I say that as someone who learnt python as her first language (to be proficient in):

holy shit is this language stupid