Went to Jesus in a keffiyeh, that in itself is atrocious!!! Then simped for jihadis. Plenty of similar stuff.

It's hard to blame all the catholics that are sighing in relief hoping for a better successor.

Seems to line up well with self-hate tendencies in many parts of West.

Don't know about that. I'm not a catholic and still view him in a much more favorable light than Francis.

I think maybe it's just some progressives (and related groups) who liked Francis a lot for many of his positions.

Interesting, I always considered him possibly the most unpopular pope of recent times and understandably so.

If I were to say one pope that many have been fond of, it's probably John Paul II.

why are almost all your comments "dead"? weird

I started them but dropped them and went straight for:

- Engineering a Compiler

- Programming Language Pragmatics

- Crafting a Compiler

Quite doable, particularly if you focus on one and supplement with the other two.

Why drop them? If you have time for 3 books, you can probably find time for 5. Writing an Interpreter in Go and Crafting Interpreters are both great, and much more fun than these.

Power series are possibly one of the most powerful tools in analysis.

momentum + ecosystem often play a much larger role than actual language merits.

And yet that momentum and ecosystem wouldn't have been achieved in the first place if there weren't enough merits in the language to trigger and maintain that interest.

I think the take should be a bit more nuanced.

Some languages definitely had people gravitate towards them due to being innovative in a given space, but in many of those cases, the comparative advantage was lost to other languages/techs/frameworks that simply failed to gain a market share "equal to their innovative contribution" due to the first comer's advantage.