That’s an artifact of JavaScript, not JSON. The JSON spec states that numbers are a sequence of digits with up to one decimal point. Implementations are not obligated to decode numbers as floating point. Go will happily decode into a 64-bit int, or into an arbitrary precision number.

I’m interpreting that as clickbait - just something they added to the title to drive traffic.

hackthebox is essentially a puzzle solving platform where the puzzles are designed to teach you hacking. You’re not supposed to hack the platform.

I was trying to make a point without starting a flamewar that was beside the point. Personally I’d never choose a dynamically typed language for a production system. That being said, Python and Ruby complain if you try to add an array, dict/hashmap, string, or number to another (of a different type) so they’re certainly more sane than JavaScript.

I thought it was clear I was saying JavaScript is not a sane language for this very reason

Sure. But in a sane language doing something totally nonsensical like that is an error, and in a statically typed language it’s a compiler error. It doesn’t just silently do weird shit.

I used GitLab’s version of Copilot when it was free and that was net helpful. It predicted for loops and stuff and was close enough, enough of the time that it was net positive. Not enough that I’d actually pay for it…

So you’re arguing that “Object oriented” shouldn’t apply to languages that are oriented around objects?

Of course, but OOP is typically about putting methods on classes, inheritance of behaviour etc.

You’re referring to one subtype of OOP. That may be what most people mean when they say OOP, but that doesn’t make it correct. Object-oriented programming is programming with objects, which does not require inheritance or classes.

It’s hard to distinguish whether a line is wrongly indented or not.

That’s very much not my experience. I use YAML regularly and while I’ve had copy paste indentation errors when I look at the offending line it’s always obvious to me how to fix the indentation. The only indentation thing that’s ever given me trouble is embedding YAML as a string within a file that uses tabs.

I think it’s a joke about the song being copyrighted

Sure. Most people will stick with Windows or macOS and that doesn’t bother me. In fact I’m happy that people who want simplicity have those options because it means less pressure for Linux to turn into that.

Not that they are shit tbf.

That’s your opinion. My opinion is that Windows is a garbage fire.

The presence of semicolons is not a language killer.

I’m not saying it is. But every time I have to work in a language that requires semicolons I’m constantly forgetting them and constantly reminded of how nice it is to not have to care in Go.

After programming in Go for nearly a decade, the idea of going back to needing semicolons brings me pain. Rust seems cool, but semicolons 🤢

I’d rather spend my free time doing something I enjoy

Why? I see no reason to go through the hassle of learning yet another language when Go serves my purposes perfectly and I’m happy with it.

I’m a cishet white dude so I experience effectively zero discrimination directed at me, but I am on the spectrum.

I guess basically everyone I regularly interact with either is also on the spectrum or has intense interests regardless, or is used to people like that. Though TBF I have learned to not get intense if I’m in public talking to random strangers. But if someone asks me a question like, “how do computers work”, I will answer at great length.

If my IQ was higher than my body weight I’d be the smartest person on the planet…

Edit: I was thinking lbs, that makes a lot more sense in kg.

I’d stop being awkward if I could but I wouldn’t give up my intense interests. You?