I tend to agree with you, if only for that fact that in the span of a single lifetime an individual, as a child, could have stood and watched man fly for the first time, and then as an adult see man land on the Moon.
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Fewer emphasizes number; less emphasizes quantity. So, I would ask myself if I prefer saying the number of bugs or the quantity of bugs, and then choose accordingly. I prefer number, here. On account of that, I prefer fewer.
As to myriad, though it can be used as a noun (and apparently its use as a noun predates its use as an adjective), written language for the past 150-plus years prefers the adjective. (When Garner is talking about written language, he's talking about quality writing.)
I'm not saying you're wrong. But, style is as much about a sense of style as anything. Keeping language from going to the dogs requires a bit of dressing up.
> But designs evolve, hardware advances, and what was once cutting edge becomes the expected baseline. The Objective-C language, AppKit & UIKit frameworks, and Interface Builder have empowered generations of developers. These technologies were built for each other, and will continue to serve us well for a long time to come, but over time new abstractions become necessary.
https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2022/102/
It gets worse from there, for Objective-C. The speaker goes on to basically say that the new triumvirate of "integrated language, frameworks, and tools" is Swift, SwiftUI, and Xcode Previews, and that these will be evolving together, and influencing one another's evolution, as Objective-C, the "kits," and IB once did for one another.
I love coding in Objective-C, and did so for work for almost 5 years. (I've within the last year switched to a front-end developer job.) Swift, to me, whatever its upside, feels like it was written by someone who hates Objective-C. That makes me sad.
But, putting aside my editorializing, I read what Apple is saying as basically this. Objective-C, etc., is all but deprecated. At long last, it's being left behind. You may get away writing CRUD apps for a good while longer, but all the new stuff will be Swift-only, and at some point any UI written in Objective-C is going to start to look dated, once the inevitable innovations come.
Is that the "Platforms State of the Union" session from the first day of WWDC 2022? I'm looking in the Developer app right now and can't find the "frameworks" one you're talking about.
(I think there is a beaten up copy buried in my old closet at my mother's house, from when I was a boy.)
I think this is key. I had a 40 minute drive home. I don't miss the drive. What I miss is the demarcation of my workday and transition to free time. Maybe I could switch in and out of tennis shoes, like Mister Rodgers used to do.
That is not journalism. That's editorializing — and in the very first paragraph, no less. This is how media like the Washington Post encourages a kind of caste of its own, by signaling "right-think" to its readers.
We're a nation of some 330 million people, of diverse religions and ethnicities, geographies and economies. Who in his right mind believes one-size-fits-all solutions should be expanded to include every aspect of life? We need political diversity to go along with the diversity I just described.
What that means is that Americans are going to have to get used to leaving one another alone. In other words, New Yorkers are going to have to allow Alabamans to live in their "ignorance," and Mississippians are going to have to allow Californians to live in their "sin."
The upside of this political diversity is what some have characterized as "50 laboratories for democracy." Each state will have the benefit to try, and to succeed or fail; and, just as importantly, to see what neighboring states are doing and learn thereof.
But I'm arguing that no shuffling of chairs at the national level will do anything to reduce polarization. We need to stay out of one another's business. Good fences make good neighbors.
I stopped reading, right there.