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What a load of rubbish. Is this generated by AI? Sure reads like slop...

The real deal is Obj-C++ - now there is a powerful combo xD

For example, we used template wrappers around NSArray for static type checking and "smart pointers" to avoid manual release/retain calls all over the place, which was glorious.

And there goes my trust in Firefox out the window...

Safari seems to be the only decent, privacy-focused browser left on the market.

Until the Ladybird arrives.

Poor Boeing. They just can't catch a break...

Some Russian closed-source music player... While it's a cool concept, I am far too paranoid to actually install it.

Website broken / cuts off on Safari ...

While true, it is often ignored that combined EU does possess a huge, highly advanced and well trained military force.

So more than that I'd hope EU can then put its squabbling aside and respong in unison to any military provocation as well.

Not quite as small. Combined EU has the largest economy in the world, is by far the wealthiest region on the planet, possesses a huge & advanced military force and despite decline still has pretty substantial manufacturing capacity. (only reason US tops these rankings is because in EU each metric is tracked separately for each country).

So if EU got its shit together and formulated a coherent unified foreign policy - it would be at the very least on equal terms with both US and China. Hence why everyone (from Putin, to China to even our allies the US) are so invested in breaking EU apart (and even succeeding - the Brexit).

I wish whole of EU would declare in unison support for Taiwan. Wonder if China would kick out every single EU nation embassy then?

so much for their much hyped Safety and Security and Privacy ...

Hypocrites. The whole Industry.

won't it be funny if after all this hype past few weeks .... Apple won't say a word about ARM or transition ...

I feel like Go lost its chance by being way too slow to innovate. From my circle of people who I remember were extremely excited about Go when it first came out - no one really uses it anymore. In our circle it has become a "meh" language. Heck Apple Swift on server is way more exciting than Go these days.

I have fond memories of ExtJS until version 4 was released. I used to be huge advocate of extjs at our company, but I remember feeling horror and dismay seeing how down hill it went with 4.0. Communication with the community, their pricing policies, quality, perfomance ... too many issues. We pretty much stopped using it and ported all our projects away from it. It really was a sad day.

It was ultimately their mad push to make ExtJS "enterprise" ready and forget all the good people who helped them and were with them from the start. There really was this huge middle finger from Sencha to everyone around that time.

Neat, but horrid naming for everything. Why does namespace need explicit "cpp_" prefix? Why do classes inside "cpp_redis" namespace still have "redis_" prefix? I would prefer simple "redis::client" so much nicer than "cpp_redis::redis_client"

If I had a language that could do a cool microsite in just few lines of my language code I'd be pretty proud of it too.

This is lunacy. It will break compatibility with nearly all software out there. From games to productivity apps. Like the stuff I actually use a PC for.

Competition yes, but I'd prefer from AMD rather than a different CPU architecture.

Frankly this is to be expected when "developers" working on these projects tend to be script kiddies more concerned with UX/design rather than solid architecture engineering. When backends are thrown together as an afterthought in node, piled in bunch of 3rd party services and things just hacked together ... well this is exactly results one would expect.

There are other differences to consider: such as deterministic destruction with reference counting.

I think services like firebase are a very scary thing. Too much dependence on one vendor, too much black box magic, too much logic that is beyond control. And services like this contribute to general dumbing down of software developers. We're heading towards world of script kiddies where html and js rule and all complex logic is handled and controlled by service providers. Is it a good thing? You can deliver fast, but in the long term is it worth it?

"looks constantly good" is debatable. I find that it looks generic and web like. It has none or very little native look & feel to it. Coupled with being slow, resource hungry long loading times ...

While I consider web-tech in native a cancer I can't help, but agree. There is no good cross platform native UI library today. Few that are are stuck in 90s metaphor or poorly designed. Which I think is partly the reason why html-css-js is spreading everywhere.

Atom and VSCode despite all the hype are subpar editors. Slow and resource hungry. Maybe suitable for script kiddies of today ... Slack is by no means a good sample of solid engineering. Spotify last I checked was native app written in c++. What's App is just wrapped website.

It is electron app.

Slow, sluggish, resource hungry and looks alien everywhere. Yeah right. Progress ... If there is one thing its done is lower standard for native applications everywhere.

Agreed. This hysteria is getting tiresome. I think Apple should simply get rid of investors and go private. I think its big enough and has enough cash to do just that.

That's the main idea of wxWidgets - it doesn't have its own GUI backend (wxUniversal really doesn't count) but uses other native frameworks such as win32, cocoa gtk and now QT too. So it will probably look nice and native in say KDE environment.

30% less fuel means smaller, lighter rockets. Compound cost savings over all.

so how is this different from say TypeScript?

we are talking out of the box experience. One could make the same comment about os-x: it is possible to customise icons, change look & feel of the UI etc. to make it look the way you like it :D