UPDATE: My supervisor approached me to ask if I knew a way to make their automatically generated PDF reports not look like ass...and well... I do happen to know of this little tool called...

[thing@plasmatrap.com]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world powershell

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@thing I hate powershell as much as the next being, but it would be too reasonable for a windows environment!

[thing@plasmatrap.com]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world fine.
all the languages here seem atleast somewhat reasonable.
lisp is for emacs, perl is for some random linux doohickeys, latex is for math, etc.

but there's one language i think that definitely wouldn't fit: Nix (tho you can only run it in linux or macos).
it is a language mostly meant for packaging, but can technically be used for everything.

[thing@plasmatrap.com]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world
i mean...
you can give arguments to it, it can do logic and math, there are types... ​​

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@thing duckduckgo nix on windows

[seism0saurus@infosec.exchange]

@astra_underscore

Regex. You can do almost anything by piping stuff through awk, sed and regex in a way, that you need weeks to understand ever again.

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@seism0saurus Horrifying! I'm taking notes!

[thing@plasmatrap.com]

@astra_underscore@wetdry.world the closest you can get is wsl

[casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de]

@astra_underscore
regexroute: It's the real programming language used for configuring the yate telephony engine. Every statement starts with a regex, and if it matches the part after the equals sign will be executed.
Now this may seem reasonable, but there's essentially no documentation about it, not even on how one should escape the regular expression.

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@casandro oh crap, now I NEED some way to shoehorn this into the software stack holy shit

[casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de]

@astra_underscore

Regular expressions - Yate Documentation

(docs.yate.ro)

[sobex@social.sciences.re]

@astra_underscore LaTeX is awesome.

And at the same time, it is not an unreasonable thing for people to pick up, if they need it.

And the next dev might still have some knowledge.

[coffee@toot.cafe]

@astra_underscore I can give you a solid recommendation for Perl 5 from personal experience. Be sure to use the special characters a lot and liberally mix using variables in list context and scalar context.

Om the other hand, if you want (to be able) to leave the company, and *stay* away, maybe pick something else so as to avoid getting kidnapped. And should the latter happen, pray that *you* still remember how the heck the thing works.

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Coffee I don't intend to stay, I'm an intern lmao

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@casandro You know, I think I had heard of this at some point, but my brain had suppressed the memory

[bubu@chaos.social]

@astra_underscore Some strategically deployed Smalltalk VMs would be nice, I think?

Or for a (far) more obscure language in a similar direction, chose Self maybe? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self_(programming_language)

[casandro@f-ckendehoelle.de]

@astra_underscore It is fairly rare since yate is only used in telephony and related areas. Plus yate allows for some interfaces to other programming languages allowing you to write your logic in those, too.

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Bubu I wish I had thought of that myself. I can only imagine the horror in the face of the next poor sod who has to maintain the project when he realizes that there are Smalltalk VMs hiding like booby traps all throughout the stack of what's supposedly is a Python and JS stack

I'm saving this idea. It's a sophisticated idea for a more civilized age...

[bubu@chaos.social]

@astra_underscore We had a lot of smalltalk at university, I actually really like the language and it's concepts. But I don't think that sentiment is shared by too many people .

[astra_underscore@wetdry.world]

@Bubu I really like ST too, but I think you could kill some devs by having them use it x)