I've only ever used high-level languages. Mostly Clojure these past few years. :lol

I got into programming to build things. Going back to learn C just feels academic, and at age 26 opportunity costs are starting to feel steep.

Never thought I'd ever be using Javascript full-time (which I wrote the guild in), but I switched to it last year because of its ecosystem and because my business partners already knew it, so we were immediately productive. I actually found it unbearable as a server-side language until I discovered async/wait semantics using [code]yield[/code] and generators.

Also, I've been able to reuse code on the server and browser for the great hack that is the guild's BBCode parser which is always a big deal. It allowed me to implement a decent starting-point editor (the guild's other great hack) and enables me to eventually provide something more user-friendly like a WYSIWYG editor for those that like that sort of thing.

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I mean being able to invite new participants to an ongoing PM thread of any kind, not necessarily one that has something (or anything) to do with an Interest Check or ongoing RP thread out in one of the general subforums.

For example, I am a co-GM in a game currently running in the Advanced forum. During a period when the game's primary GM was out of commission due to RL issues, I had begun a PM collaboration with one of the players, filling in for the GM on a longish post for the IC that was to be posted up all at once when completed. Without really thinking about it, I had begun the PM with only myself and the player as participants; when I then tried to add the primary GM as a participant so that they could participate if they returned sooner than expected, I found that I could not. 

Other PbP forums (and forums in general) that I've been a member of have had the ability to "invite" new participants to a PM thread at any point, and by any current participant of said thread, and I've repeatedly found this functionality to be useful, especially where PbP games are concerned. Additionally, some forums I've been a member of have allowed a participant in a PM thread to "uninvite" themselves, in effect removing themselves from the conversation (without necessarily deleting said PM entirely), and some have given the OP of a PM thread admin-like privileges that allow them to not only invite new participants but "uninvite" existing participants (perhaps because they're being disruptive to the conversation, or because inviting them was an unintentional mistake).

So I figured I'd bring it up here. :)
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Those are definitely features that most of us want!

The obstacle is simply that it's non-trivial and non-fun and non-quick to build. I will most likely implement a way to delete/leave convos sooner than later, but introducing a way to invite users to an existing convo isn't really on my roadmap yet.