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I was part of that acquisition. To be fair, Weather Channel was already running Weather Underground into the ground when they acquired it first. IBM just came in and helped them finished the job.

A huge part of it was the incompetence with which IBM pushed us to use Watson modules in our products, which I could see 6 years ago were worse than open source AI options and had no application to Weather Underground's services. They were basically toy projects being advertised as ground-breaking AI. I'm not surprised at all to see Watson finally collapsing under the weight of its vacuous claims.

This will be a much weaker argument after the Go 1.18 release with generics. Should have argued performance.

Rust vs Go: advantages

Go lacks expressiveness. Rust has a flexible and expressive system that allows for defining new container types that can hold different types of elements, generics, traits, algebraic data types. Go gives you less control over both resources and memory.

Dude. Me too. One of my first, anyways. Hard to remember if it came before or after my forays into FutureBasic.