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Verbosity is so much worst than syntax complexity because you ends up having dozens of different patterns that do the same thing overall but with subtile differences on edge cases.

So vague.

As long as you introduce syntax to help with what people are actually doing (and not juste because it looks cool) syntax addition enhance the code readability.

So you are saying Rust's syntax is doing just right. But this has nothing to do with other language design. Just open your mind.

MacBook Pro 10 years ago

Even on rMBP, but feel very bad for the WiFi, Thunderbolt, and the screen resolution. Damn proprietary hardware. How do you solve these problems?

After some experience with Factor (a very interesting concatenative language with great C FFI support), I think Red is the next exciting language for me to try. Just waiting for the I/O module. :)

TOML don't even have a clear and definitive standard/test suits. It seems unmaintained but some people are trying to push it to 1.0 no matter what.

whereas free software is primarily about protecting the freedom of people.

That's why people often misunderstand the redefined/restricted freedom of GPL. I don't even want to associate GNU with "free software". Just replace "have the freedom to ..." for "have the right to ...", this way the philosophy of GPL would sound better to my ears.

Just look at this rule:

第十六条 互联网广告活动中不得有下列行为:

(一)提供或者利用应用程序、硬件等对他人正当经营的广告采取拦截、过滤、覆盖、快进等限制措施;

16.1 Provide or use any computer program, hardware, and etc. to block/filter/replace/skip/... legal ads.

However there is no rule about the punishment about the violation of this rule.

Well, did I ever say some ISPs shamelessly plug their ads to people's webpages for years?

Agree. Culture is what makes the language more beautiful. When a small town turns into a big city, the language will gradually lose its power if everyone goes for profit without the culture carried forward.

Also, like what @gkya said, if the government aggressively enforce an official language on the people, other languages will die more quickly.

I think the Unicode standard should not limit the use of fonts. Instead, let the font or the additonal locale datafile tell us how to deal with those locale issues.

Given more and more custom fonts in the OSes/websites, maybe by using some new APIs, we don't need to specify everything in the Unicode standard. We can design a new font format or just a separate datafile, to store those locale-specific information. The Unicode code points then becomes parking slots for different fonts(with locale info to be registered). And We can use the standard/default datafile to keep the old info about the current unicode standard (say Unicode 8.0).

This is just my first thought. Seems that the job of ICU is transfered to the OS or web browser.

Right, there will be less common languages. The faded ones could be kept in the digital world by using special fonts.

May be off-topic, I wonder if anyone is planning a redesign of Unicode for the far future? or is there a better way to handle characters, so we don't require a giant library like ICU?

I can only guess that "obscurity" is an excuse for the defects of GitHub's machine learning of spammer detection. The spammers can always check if their accounts have profiles even if there is no notification.

(Don't know why you and all my neutral comments are downvoted. Angry GitHub employees here?)

The sudden disappearance is not only annoying to the victim. The last time I saw an account disappear in front of me, I thought that person might be a joker.