good riddance, black banana asylum. you won't be missed.

My biggest concern over .NET is exactly how closed Microsoft-land can be. For what I've seen so far, with the notable exception of perhaps Unity, pretty much everything else gravitates around MS and there's no way of leaving it.

how do you compile code with gnu parallel? i mean, i'm really ignorant on parallel and at first glance it seemed that there's no way of compiling separate chunks of code with it.

funny thing is that the project page of hvm actually recommends bend.

Bend is the human-readable language and should be used both by end users and by languages aiming to target the HVM. (https://github.com/HigherOrderCO/HVM?tab=readme-ov-file#language)

tbh i have no problem with curly brackets either. even though my first language was freebasic (!), i have worked more with curly bracket languages and actually find them quite useful, if not powerful.

Thanks. For the record, the Brazilian government, where I work also loved Java.