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Jetpack Compose Multiplatform is in alpha status on iOS and Kotlin Multiplatform still has a a beta disclaimer on it, so I don’t feel like this is a good choice at this time. Something to keep an eye on for the future certainly.

The current status quo is on a path to being harmful to both.

I love Nintendo but they compete more with Apple and Google than they do with Sony and Microsoft.

If Microsoft exits game consoles next generation Sony won’t have any real competition and that will be very bad for consumers.

Microsoft needs their own heavy hitting exclusives and they need them sooner than they can home grow them. This acquisition is one of the only ways they can do that.

Not just the language itself but the whole ecosystem it brought with it was revolutionary. CPAN was incredible. There seemed like there was a module for just about anything! Perldoc and a testing framework were built right in. Regexes, backticks to shell out to the system, reporting built in. It really was the whole package.

Unpopular opinion, but I think we'd be so much better off if Netscape had just embedded a Perl interpreter instead of creating JavaScript. Perl CGI was already the dominant server side technology at the time and it has incredible string manipulation capabilities that would be beneficial for browser scripting.

Nearly every company does that. There’s nothing particularly nefarious about Apple here.

This may surprise you, but Microsoft, Google, Samsung, Amazon, and nearly every other major tech company use similar tactics to try to get you to use their other products.

Not only that, there are so many other franchises they could’ve applied the same game mechanics to and made additional hit games.

The Nintendo Switch is based on FreeBSD as well. Also Juniper Networks and several other enterprise networking equipment manufacturers make extensive use of FreeBSD in their products.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_products_based_on_Free...

Of course nobody marries somebody expecting it to end in an unhappy divorce.

The problem is that there are 2 single points of failure in a marriage, and you only control one of them. I can be the best husband I can possibly be, work hard, provide for my family, love my wife with everything I have, and otherwise do what I can to try to make her happy. However, if she choses not to reciprocate this, there's literally nothing I can do about it. (You can change the genders here as appropriate, it's just that I'm a heterosexual male.)

The other problem is that people can change. Sometimes people go out of their way to be the very best version of themselves until they are married and then they just stop trying as hard or stop pretending to be the person the other person wants them to be. Also, people change as they get older, they have different priorities, different interests, new hobbies, changes in physical appearance, changes in libido, etc. After 10 or 20 years of marriage, it is very unlikely that you and your spouse haven't changed in some very significant ways.

I think a lot of men are starting to do the cost benefit analysis of marriage.

If everything goes well you can buy a lovely house in the suburbs, raise 2.5 kids, grow old together with your wife and live happily ever after.

If it goes wrong she takes your kids and half your assets immediately, followed by several years of child support and possibly alimony.

How are economic conditions better now than they were a decade or two ago?

I’m sorry what about our sentencing laws are racist? Please provide me with some examples.

Plus if their standard takes hold they don’t end up being the next BetaMax of history.

The most disgusting thing is everyone else sharing the road with these self driving cars are all non consenting beta testers in this.

To all of you saying this is a GPL violation, I highly doubt a company with the size and pedigree of Red Hat doesn’t have lawyers that thoroughly understand the GPL. I’m not a lawyer, but the way I read it, yes this is against the spirit but not the law.

That being said, I feel like GPLv4 will be here any day now to close this loophole, like they did with the anti-Tivoization clause for v3.

Gaming laptops are particularly prone to this because of all the heat they generate. Desktops have much better mechanisms for dealing with heat.

Oh no, I realize what software I use is Java. Swing feels bad to use. On my workstation at least, JetBrains IDEs are slow, I haven’t used it in a long time, but Eclipse was slow, NetBeans was slow, there’s an enterprisey Java web start application I need to use at work and that’s slow. Like I said, Minecraft is the only piece of software written in Java that I enjoyed using.

As an end user though, I honestly can’t think of any Java software I actually enjoy using. Minecraft? That’s literally the only thing that comes to mind.

Modern CSS and HTML's built in elements are better at a lot of the things people use JS for.

I think as coders we feel most comfortable reaching for JavaScript first, when really we should be doing as much in HTML itself as possible, then prettying it all up with CSS, and then finally adding some JS for interactivity such as client side form validation.

Can we please stop erasing history. Add context to it instead.

It’s perfectly fine to acknowledge that we were deeply flawed individuals in the past. Erasing history makes it so much more difficult to learn from it.

Over 80% of iPhones are running the latest version. I’ll take that any day as a developer over the Android hellscape of versions that need to be tested for and supported.

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/01/apple-shares-ios-16-ado...

They said simple and obvious, which much of systemd is not.

Personally I find the OpenBSD solution far more elegant and UNIXy than the systemd one, but to each their own.

The drag and drop GUI designers used to work because most people were using screens that were approximately the same size and resolution for the most part back then. That is no longer the case today when there is pressure to support everything from a smart watch all the way up to a UHD 4K monitor or TV. Fixed layouts are also much more difficult to localize and translate to other languages than modern layout systems.

Lack of arrests and prosecutions for theft of merchandise. Despite popular opinion, stores can’t just magically subsidize thieves through insurance or a tax write off and Walmart’s low margin business model doesn’t leave enough room to eat these costs once they become large enough.

I know this is anecdotal, but I’ve noticed more and more products at my local Walmart (not even in a high crime neighborhood) being put inside locked cabinets. Even razor blades, condoms, and beauty products need to be locked up. Shoplifting is spiraling into an epidemic because it is no longer being treated as a serious crime.

The source code for all software produced by Chinese companies is most certainly not available in a “public domain” manner. Hence the complaining about GPL violation.

China’s lack of respect for intellectual property is not the same as open source at all.

Shared hosting is also a great option for small projects.

It can be very cheap and if you stick to static HTML or PHP, deployment is as simple as a SCP or FTP upload.

Plus you don't need to worry about configuring a VPS or keeping up with security updates.

Perl is dead like COBOL, Visual Basic, and Pascal.

There was so much code written in Perl it will be a long time before it truly dies. It was the duct tape of the internet for almost a decade and it’s still probably the best way to efficiently manipulate text.

Perl is dead, long live Perl.

Probably not what you’re looking for, but MS Word.

It really is one of the fastest and easiest ways to make a good looking CV or resume.