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I'm not sure what's scary about it. I find them useful. And I find the behavior is pretty predictable with experience.


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I’ve used one and wasn’t even remotely worried; calling it “terrifying” is a little extreme.

It doesn't sound scary to me. It just sounds like the fundamental nature of trying to do something truly new. It's just less predictable and there is no way around that.

I'm not exactly sure what you're talking about, but I like it / am scared by it

The “Scary Stuff” warnings are important because anyone competent will ignore them and anyone not competent will be scared away. As they should be, because potential for abuse here is rife.

It works.


What's frightening about it? :/ Meh

Scary? It’s reassuring to me

which are very clearly wrong

but not always; And that's what makes it scary. You know people will use it and trusting it.


Why scary?

Why scary?

I can see the benefit, but I'm more frightened with the misuse. Scary.

is it maybe the fact that they're scary?

Why is it scary? And what's the payoff?

Not scary at all. I think much better of such projects compared to ill-functioning multi-people projects which get worse and worse over time.

How is it frightening?

Why frightening?

Yeah I can see how it might seem scary. It takes you out of your comfort zone and it's easy to start thinking uncomfortable things have to be scary. I've been using Nim for a couple of years now, and I've never run into a safety issue with it.

does this not terrify you?

BTW: I'm concerned that typical people scare you.

This is true. But that's my point. It frightens me in some ways and in others I can see it not being so bad.
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