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Honestly I don't understand the pessimistic view here. I think every release since Microsoft started funding python has increased high single digit best case performance.

Rather than focussing on the raw number compare to python 3.5 or so. It's still getting significantly faster.

If they keep doing this steady pace they are slowly saving the planet!

I think environmentalist have been trying to say this forever.

A lifestyle where everyone is supposed to own a car is not sustainable. Cities need to adjust to such an environment. You can see this slowly happening in Europe.

Furthermore you can check the infrastructure spend in Netherlands over time as they stopped prioritizing the needs for car drivers.

This paper is truly interesting. People have been fighting the performance cost between exceptions and returning error codes for years, So the paper just designs an instruction level mapping of generating code as if exceptions would be returning error codes.

The approach is somewhat simple and really not that clever, yet the outcome looks impressive enough. This surprises me as it's just a mechanism of what people have been arguing over years.

Nicely done!

So a lot of the complaints are not entirely true anymore.

If you onboard lombok, you get data classes, which resolves the property boilerplate. If you use IntelliJ the code is generated.

I used Java and Go and I have to admit, that Java feels like the more practical language.

Generics and error-handling are really painful in Go.

The most painful part in Java is having to deal with other people's code that makes it look weird. Google has a very good set of libraries that make the Java world much more pleasant.

I wonder if the social bubble so often blamed for bias could be used for stack overflow.

Imagine every user would only see the relevant questions rather than all of them.

I guess this would remove the need for administration to a certain degree and perhaps then the frustrations and maybe in the long run the hostility.

Of course this is a bit of a unicorn wish. Heading towards that could safe the community a bit.