And btw... About this line

> The website will be a therapist -- telling you only what you want to hear

this was a surprising comment to me. If that was your experience with a therapist, please don't assume that all therapists would have such a useless strategy!

Good well-trained and empathetic therapists do challenge assumptions and help move you towards useful and new perspectives not merely ego stroking. Everyone if possible should shop around for therapists and find someone that is a good fit, and that includes getting the right amount of insightfulness and independence of thought, with rapport but also without fear of speaking truthfully in your presence.

These links may also be enlightening:

http://www.boingboing.net/2010/05/12/confident-dumb-peopl.html

https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Dunning-Kruger_Effect

Yeah, because when you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godfellas

This is just a part of the evangelical fundamentalist echo chamber.

It also means that Gosu supports custom type loaders that dynamically inject types into the language so you can use them as native objects in Gosu.

For example, custom type loaders add Gosu types for objects from XML schemas (XSDs) and from remote WS-I compliant web services (SOAP). Later versions of the Gosu community release will include more APIs and documentation about creating your own custom type loaders.

Modules of code containing type loaders can create entire namespaces of new types. This means that a type loader can import external objects and let Gosu code manipulate them as native objects. There are two custom type loaders that included in Gosu: (1) Gosu XML typeloader. This type loader supports the native Gosu APIs for XML. For more information, see "Gosu and XML". (2) Gosu SOAP typeloader. This type loader supports the native Gosu APIs for SOAP.

The first Gosu community release does not yet include these add-on typeloaders that support these APIs due to in-progress changes in bundling add-on typeloaders. The Gosu documentation describes the XML and web services APIs right now so you can become familiar with these upcoming APIs.

For more information http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=intro&topic=Extensible_Type_System

Good news then!!!

Because you CAN use your semicolons in Gosu!

They are optional, although not the standard Gosu coding style. http://gosu-lang.org/doc/wwhelp/wwhimpl/api.htm?&context=gosu&src=intro&topic=Gosu_Statement_Terminators

Actually there are several improvements to the Gosu generics system that workaround JVM limitations.

In Java, when you use generics, the true type like MyClass is erased and it just becomes MyClass at run time. This called type erasure.

In Gosu, if you do the same thing, assuming MyClass is a Gosu type, the run time type is really MyClass. This is called reified generics.

(Note however that if the type is a Java type to start out with, like java.util.ArrayList, then the generic version ArrayList in Gosu follows the type erasure route as you'd imagine.)

But if you are playing in the Gosu world with Gosu types (for example, a Gosu class ), the language adds code that really does preserve generics even though the JVM doesn't natively think that way.

regarding the "chance to really get going", Gosu is already used by multi-billion dollar companies around the world already, for a bunch of years.

See a list of companies here: http://www.guidewire.com/our_customers

It's just that the language now available to a wider audience who want it, not just Guidewire Software customers.