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CHANCECHANELon Why many developers still prefer Objective-C to Swift

Uhh because Swift threatens their job? Objective-C is an abomination, which has kept Python/Ruby/JS developers away. Swift on the other hand greatly simplifies switching between, JS,Python,Swift. From employers perspective this opens up a huge talent pool, for employees especially the Objective-C hipsters its a bad news, since their privileged status in the app economy is now under threat.

I don't see any sane new startup/projects using Obj-C, other than bullying by Obj-C devs.

CHANCECHANELon Distroless: Language focused docker images, minus the operating system

Could not agree more. Let's install Java to build something that does not needs Java at all. They could have used Go, Python, hell even something like CMake.

CHANCECHANELon Show HN: Dffer – Get notified when a website changes

I wonder how its implemented. I think its possible to do run this type of service at a very large scale for extremely low costs using AWS Lambda and Cloudwatch events.