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Re:JSON5 – JSON for Humans on Sunday December 08, 2024 @06:31PM (#42361684)
Hjson!
Re:Imaginary Problems Are the Root of Bad Software on Sunday June 18, 2023 @06:24PM (#36385155)
Minimal change, or minimal code? Refactoring code can make code smaller but depends on good testing. Applying minimal changes results in redundant and complicated code, but less likely to break existing functionality.
Re:Businesses are in for a mighty debt hangover on Tuesday May 16, 2023 @07:52PM (#35969421)
The greatest benefit I have seen so far is using AI for composing code in unfamiliar frameworks and languages. You do not need to read the docs. It is a stackoverflow killer.

If you already can speak the language, the best it can do is provide the boilerplate.