That's Twitter currently, in a way. I've seen and had short conversations in which each person speaks their own language and trusts the other to use the built-in translation feature.

And then we're back at your own:

> I'm not convinced at all by most of the heuristic-driven ARIA scanning tools.

That's entirely different.

ARIA scanning tools are things that throw an error if they see an element that's missing an attribute, without even attempting to invoke a real screenreader.

I'm arguing for automated testing scripts that use tools like Guidepup to launch a real screenreader and assert things like the new content that was added by fetch() being read out to the user after the form submission has completed.

I want LLMs and coding agents to help me write those scripts, so I can run them in CI along with the rest of my automated tests.

That's very different from what I thought you were arguing for in your top comment, though: a computer-use agent proving the app is usable through a screen reader alone (and hopefully caching a replayable trace to not prompt it on every run).

Guidepup already exists, if people cared they'd use it for tests with or without LLMs. Thanks for showing me this tool BTW! I agree testing against real readers is better than using a third-party's heuristics.

Prevented unless they assert the wrong invariant at runtime like they did last time.

EcmaScript too, but most browser JS runtimes don't (didn't?) support it. It's also part of .NET CIL but only F# uses it so support for it has historically been flakey outside the CLR's main JIT mode.

Safari's JSC (and much more recently, WebAssembly) are the only ones that actually implement it. In practice I don't think it actually ends up being any better than V8, which I believe has some amount of logic to replace them with iterators or trampolines when it can.

IIRC ES6 introduced PTC (Proper Tail Calls), Chrome had an experimental flag for a while but it introduced more issues than it solved (stack traces became a mess and the stack inspection changes came with realistic security concerns). Microsoft and Firefox refused to implement it. Safari refused to un-implement it, and also refused to adopt an opt-in per function flag.

It's crazy how fast javascript has gotten. Ported a classic game earlier this year using all of the new stuff in ES5/6/onwards, the benchmarks are within a couple of percent of what the perf would be were it a standalone game. Runs with 250x monsters at 30x the original tick rate, or >1000x as many monsters at the original tick rate.

You say that, but people in OCaml keep bemoaning the use of mostly declarative s-expressions in the Dune build system. Imagine the reaction if MSBuild used an actual Scheme.

Why doesn't the OCaml build system use OCaml?

You don’t want a language with non-determinism, arbitrary IO, impure functions etc. for build configuration ideally.

I guess the answer to your question is OCaml has unmanaged side effects.

They don’t know how good they really have it :)

In what sense is Go not a traditional language for web services? They're almost the only thing it's good at, and it's been doing them for 13 years.

I agree that Go is a good choice for web services. I disagree that it's the only thing Go is good at. DevOps tooling and CLI tools immediately spring to mind.

Fair, CLI tools is why I said almost, but there's much more competition there. I wouldn't consider devops tools to be its own category though.

Rephrasing, Endeavour is something that is started with a terminal system based on Arch.

I know that's a cheesy way to say it's an Arch distro but I hope you notice how poor the phrasing is for someone trying to understand what they've been linked to.

To be fair, that's what it shows by default. I recently created an account just for a short-term purpose, after years of not using it, and the starting algorithmic TL was just right-wing rage-bait about either my country or the US; nothing else. I chose to experiment, and it took days of active curation and follows for the algorithmic TL to stop trying and just show me game/anime stuff for example.

I can see people which open an account without a specific purpose just letting themselves fall into the first rabbit hole Twitter shows them.

Except by ogling your ID, the attendant isn't making a copy and linking it to your purchase in a database that will get breached, or shared with the wrong future government.

This isn't the same due to the sensitive nature of pornography consumption but in the US this is exactly what happens when you buy certain cold medicines (pseudoephedrine specifically)

> You can just use a third party verification company.

That will ask for a government ID scan or selfie face capture. It solves the company-side problem only.