I'm not a C++ dev and everything that I read about it screams "bloat". Is there an agreed-upon set of features which basically just adds OO to C?

Build mistake into product this week, sell patch for that mistake next week.

Correction:

LISP: (What (if (everything (was (a pair?)))))

If we could "compile" a spec written in English into an executable file then the spec would be "code", no?

Try to use the site with Javascript disabled.

Usually when I'm asked to enable Javascript I feel resentful, but the poem filled me with tranquility.

Learn the basics and then chill. Odds are that you'll tend to access databases through helper functions in a procedural language that construct SQL queries for you.

You don't program in your spare time?

Doesn't it excite you that you have the potential to be an expert in five things?

I'm a big fan of agile

Given indefinite time you could write code to be so straightforward that no comments are needed.

Avoid destructive behavior, for example: [...] “Microaggressions,” the small, subtle, often subconscious actions that marginalize people in oppressed groups.

How is one supposed to avoid subconscious behaviour?

J is a regular poster to the golang-nuts mailing list. On one thread, they make the comment “Go’s type system is so simple even my grandma could understand it.” Another poster points out that the comment goes against the code of conduct, since it marginalises women and the elderly by implying that something need be simple for an old woman to understand it.

J should have pointed out that he wasn't making an observation about all elderly women, just his grandma who is specifically an idiot.