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A Rant on Terra (2019) (erikmcclure.com)
13 points by akkartik on March 21, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 5 comments



I had a hard time understanding this article with phrases like, "However, with great power comes ~~great responsibility~~ undecidable type systems, whose undefined behavior may involve summoning eldritch abominations from the Black Abyss of Rěgne Ūt." I was pleased so see that Bard accepts URLs, so I asked it to summarize it. Here's Bard's summary:

  The author of the article, Erik McClure, rants about Terra, a metaprogramming language. He argues that Terra is not well-documented, that it does not work well on Windows, and that it is not as good as other metaprogramming languages.

  He also claims that Terra is not a good choice for writing production code, as it is not as stable as other languages.

  Overall, the author is not a fan of Terra. He believes that there are better options available for metaprogramming.


I liked it. Fun prose makes it enjoyable to read about something I wouldn't otherwise care about.


Why do you believe Bard accurately summarized the article?


I didn't say it did. I posted the reply that I got, which did slightly improve my motivation to read the article.


Bespoke definition of metaprogramming threw me off and I never recovered...




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