can u explain why our talented developer named this unused lambda parameter using the Greek uppercase letter Xi?

Yes! Prior to C# 9.0, it was not possible to provide `_` as a name for two or more lambda parameters to indicate discarding of the parameter values. And that talented developer found the (triple) underscore-like thing that is also a valid C# identifier, the Ξ character 🥲

I wonder if there are any modern/popular programming languages that have already changed or are planning to adopt some language feature that is somehow connected to the presence of LLMs?

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damn sometimes I hate MSBuild so much. Cleared obj\ and now everything works after hours of messing with csproj. NuGet Source-only packages authoring experience is awful :((

Asked LLM for a short PowerShell script to prepend each file's name with a "test" prefix... well, technically, the result fits the prompt...

Windows Spotify app stopped working for no apparent reason. Process not responding, no UI. Even after a full reinstall, damn! Decided to use the web version temporarily... Web version:

Language designer: our language is designed with an IDE support in mind, from the day one. Language with "an IDE support in mind": struggles to find the usages of the record's property... interactively (!!) prompts to exclude some language constructs from the search. WTF!

When work cooked you so bad you get home and just sit like this for a while

wtf

Silksong is out, Steam is dead 😭😂

Before C# 14, there were just a few rare erasure conflicts in C#, like when u define overloads differing only by `ref` /`out`. With C# 14 extensions, we are one step closer to Java, with its stupid "have the same erasure" conflicts

Surprised to learn that JVM has no equivalent of .NET's DependentHandle/ConditionalWeakTable... I wonder how JVM folks solve rare, but sometimes valid scenario of "attaching" the "extra data" to objects, while keeping the "extra data" alive until the owner object is also alive...

Compiler-generated classes for C# 12 `[collection, expressions]` still look awful in the debugger, pls vote: github.com/dotnet/roslyn/…

OpenJDK 25 is out, and it comes with two JEPs that I personally care much about: JEPs 519 and 521 - 8-byte object headers aka Lilliput and Generational Shenandoah, both as production-ready features. 🎉🍾🥳🙌

Wait a minute… The guy trying desperately to usher in superintelligence at Meta is named Roko’s Basilisk-o????

Evolving ZGC's Pointer Color Palette :: epic #JVMLS talk on ZGC and thread-local GC youtube.com/watch?v=y_QeST…