Ruby/Crystal seem to have P … Q for inclusive ranges and P … Q for right-exclusive ranges.

What kind of programs do you, or would you, write in C? For most programs, writing in C would leave you, as you put it, stuck.

Having all these amazing worked-through ideas by Bret Victor available in the open is itself amazing!

And was on the ActivityPub committee before that.

And created GNU MediaGoblin before that.

I sympathize. Using a neovim GUI should make things just work. Terminal and graphics never played well together, although you found nano to behave well.

That is what Delta Chat and Monocles do on different protocols, with WebXDC. https://webxdc.org/

Anything from djb can be expected to be good 👍

The simplest tool I had come across was memoize.py (and others like it). Given a build script, it uses strace on a from-scratch build to figure out dependencies. On future builds, it rebuilds only what has changed. It naturally captures edge cases like, rebuilding everything if the compiler changes! But also the typical case, of include files etc.

On a lighter note. There are Git experts? ;-)

I remember glancing at NodeBB (in my ignorance, I am averse to node.js). Activitypub seems to be an integration in it rather than its basis.

I get that it is an evolution, but building on top of SBCL seems like it would have made more sense.