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lol. I generally use a failed malloc as an opportunity to decide I am done with whatever it was at hand. And even in the complex system we had, I don’t think we ever tried to recover from heap exhaustion via setjmp/longjmp. We had some shame! 😉

bsky.app/profile/hika... lmao

rereading your php article and it really does seem like a language for people who wished their backend ran on makefiles. they had it coming tbh

I pulled up that essay I read in college 12 years ago and I was absolutely floored to discover it was you all along

having "no PHP" as part of my selection criteria for the small three person private wiki I run is making me happy right now.

Thinking about "Also wow that is a lot of places you need to check to figure out how a setting is getting its value."

it true, u did!

slow-burn TF into being known for a second thing

I'm not super savvy about web development but I saw it was php and my knee jerk reaction was "yeah that tracks" 😭