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I did not know that Pascal is still in use till today. What kind of freelancing projects are in demand? I mean in Delphi/Pascal. If you do not mind my asking.

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Thank you so much

It might not be relevant to HN. But could you please explain the reference? Why is Godot a joke? I'm familiar with the reference

Maybe Zig[1]?

[1] https://ziglang.org/

I want to thank you for sharing this with us

UML and OO is waste of time and money.

I have to agree. I saw FSF members argue with uutils coreutils [0] developers about having their project licensed under MIT. And for no good reason, they started attacking the project and the people behind it.

I was a big fan of FSF until that point.

[0] https://github.com/uutils/coreutils

Okay, not yet. I don't think RISC-V rivals you in any market except micro-controllers. However, it's a matter of time before RISC-V dominates every market. Due to its openness and lack of fees.

I wish that we had Rust 30 years ago. Many of these problems would have been solved by the ownership system.

Thank you so much. The specification point is very important

What is the benefit of having multiple compilers for programming languages? Is there a scenario where a GCC compiled rust program would do something that an LLVM one can't do?

Doesn't this cause fragmentation in the rust ecosystem?

P.S.:I understand that people can work on any project they want. And I don't have the right to tell them not to. I'm just curious about the technical reasons for having multiple compilers.

It looks like an almost dead project with very little development since Aug 2021, and the last release was in 2019.

Really sad. I always loved Seattle, and wished to live there. Not anymore.

D has many cool features. I always wonder why it is not (more?) popular?

GIMP needs to have a GUI redesign and modernization. I hope it gets enough support to take it to Blender's level.

Yes, it's the GIL [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_interpreter_lock

To be honest, I think the point of the article is to list some of the reason way Linux is not for average users. And they talk about Windows since it's the most used desktop OS.

Hopefully one day Linux would be the goto desktop OS.

And now windows has a packages manager "winget" [1].

[1] https://github.com/microsoft/winget-cli

I have no doubt that Linux users are awesome at reporting, debugging and finding problems. Also, they tend to be tech-savvy. So reporting bugs are not a big deal for them. Unlike most average users.

My argument was about how hard it's to develop and support software for Linux. Not about the users. You have to admit that Linux (due to its fragmentation) is a nightmare to support. And it has a very small users base to justify putting the effort to support all Linux distros and all desktop environments and hardware configurations and Wayland and Xorg ...etc.

I like Linux, and I wish I could use it all the time. But to be honest, it's more work than what I'm willing to do.

A game developer [1] once said that Linux "accounted for <0.1% of sales but >20% of auto reported crashes and support tickets." Unfortunately, this is the reality of Linux. It's very hard to support due to its fragmentation. It requires so much effort to work in a fast-changing environment that a few users even use. To make Linux easier to support, we need to make it as easy to develop as Windows, macOS, iOS, and Android. We need a unified Linux platform with a friendlier developer experience. Something similar to Android (which has Linux kernel inside it).

[1] https://twitter.com/bgolus/status/1080213166116597760 Also, see: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18845205

I wander if rust (or any other memory safe system language in the future) could have avoided this exploit. If not, what could we do to avoid such exploits?

Everything is for sale for the right price. And what is good for Unity does not mean it's good for the consumers.

You could run them on Linux for how long? MS will not allow any competition for its dominance over PC gaming. And trust me, they will use gamepass against Linux gaming and Valve and others.

I hate to see a monopoly in the gaming industry. Controlling the content will prevent any competition both in gaming consoles and in PC gaming. Forget about gaming on Linux or any new platform. Forget about sony's PlayStation and Nintendo. We are going to see the real face of Microsoft. What do you think Microsoft will do next? Buy unreal engine and unity and have control over the content and the tools to make them? We NEED open source game engines (Godot, Bevy) more than ever.

Just a sad story. I'm a big believer in the power of the market. If these actions lead to deterioration of the service provided, these ideologies will cause Big Tech to become less "big."

It looks very cool

It's not a big deal. If you don't like it, don't use it. However, some of the examples in the article is funny.

I'm really rooting for Julia to improve its ML ecosystem. Julia is a JIT-compiled language that has the potential to become the all-encompassing solution for AI/ML/Data Science. I think their motto was "Walk like Python, Run like C." This could help to implement all their libraries in Julia instead of what is happening in Python (e.g., PyTorch is written in C++). I want to be clear; Python will be the go-to language for AI/ML for the foreseeable future. And It's a great language, but Julia is a breath of fresh air.