Yes, this is what a CD drive is for. If you have CD-ROMs, you can image them for a perfect copy, or you can copy their files out like you would with any other drive.

You can probably find an old computer with a CD drive for free to do it with.

interesting syntax mashup, a bit pascal-y, a bit SML-family-ish, actors with first-class sugar, etc.

but if you have a clean slate, why include nullable values?

JS is growing a real date library, about 20 years too late and after several libraries filled the gap.

Hopefully webasm will enable less hackish languages for app development. (Not that Java, C#, Python, etc… didn’t fall prey to the Date/Time/Calendar leaky abstraction as well, but geez at least they have integers)