Well its public so who knows in what other package is using it. And it’s static, so who know what kind if monster is calling it from some inapropriate place. I have seen static methods being called from translation/localization files, because “it works”.
IntelliJ finds most uses in my experience unless you’re doing something weird with reflection or similar. And if it’s a public facing API only used by the library’s consumers…– it should be used in tests at the very least! Especially if it’s prone to regressions like the comment suggests
I once considered implementing a CI/CD configuration management tool in Prolog (in my free time).
Cause, you know, you’ve got certain conditions that you want to be met, so from an API perspective, it’s actually kind of reasonable.
Problem is, at some point you need to actually do things on the target machine. And you can’t really tell it to run a few instructions in order. Not as reasonable for that part…
I’ve once decided that “hey, software interaction is logic, so prolog should be the best for complex protocols and UIs!”
Quite soon I understood that no, “complex protocols and UIs” are a problem all by themselves, enabling them makes them worse, and enabling them with prolog makes them even worse.
Up to this day I’m stuck trying to make data quering more “programming-like” than the restrictive thing we have with SQL. I’ve backtracked a few times already after noticing that I just designed prolog again.
But fear not, at some point one of us will finally find that problem domain for what prolog is really suitable. I know of an entire company betting on using it for describing access control rules, maybe they are up to something!
But i still think C++ has more footguns than Prolog.
They are different kinds of footguns. The C++ ones keep security, ops, management, suppliers, customers, and the public up at night; the prolog ones keep you up at night.
When I was testing Linux distributions on DistroSea it was pretty funny to me to see " Activate Windows " lines on the screen while testing a Linux distro
Git Repo, it works on Windows too, just in case you’ve activated it and the bottom corner of your screen feels lonely. You can also set the text to whatever you want
I remember when someone did this for Mac. this just ticks those boxes of someone who should be doing work, but doesn’t want to do work and feels like coding something to make you laugh. Heh
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