I’m old enough to remember when 4 of those 5 languages were the hot new thing. You’d have had me ignore them all and keep using C for everything. If I had done that I wouldn’t have even landed my first job.

Oh please. This comment has the same energy as Dave Chappelle doing a whole Netflix special about how he’s been cancelled.

There you go again flinging insults at anyone who disagrees with you.

Yeah, because the new tools are never actually better, right? If condescending luddites like you had your way we’d still be living in the literal stone age. At every step of the way, people like you have smugly said that the older, more established ways of doing things were good enough and new ways were just a fad that would die out.

Your favorite language was dismissed as fad when it was new. High level languages were a fad. Computing was a fad. Electricity was a fad. See a pattern?

Nice job projecting with the “only morons” bit, BTW, when it is in fact you who started off by denigrating people whose preferences are different from yours.

Clearly Rust is a conspiracy.

JSON and YAML aren’t the same as XML. The attribute/child distinction in XML, and the fact that every object has a tag name associated with it, make it a PITA to map into the data primitives of any programming language I know.

YAML had comments and trailing commas, therefore it’s objectively better than JSON. If you want a compromise solution that mostly looks like JSON, try JSON5.

Earth’s atmospheric pressure just doesn’t change as much as you seem to think it does.

Lenses for full size-cameras are made airtight. It’s not a problem.

I don’t know how I feel about calling it a dye. But I also can’t think of a better word.

The article goes into a lot of detail about how it works.

Because classes kind of suck.

TMI

JSON5. it’s basically just JSON with several QoL improvements, like comments, that make it usable as a format for human consumption (as opposed to a serialization format).

Seems like using a copyleft on the reference implementation of a new protocol is a great way to ensure the protocol is never widely adopted.

Direct messaging apps are also social media.

How do you define social media in a way that includes DMs but doesn’t include basically all communication?

You can get in touch with him eventually, but not for anything urgent. For example, I had to rescue his mom when she lost her car key because she couldn’t get in touch with him to help her.

I know a guy who doesn’t have a phone. Trying to get in touch with him is a PITA.

Does it do navigation with routes based on current traffic conditions? Because that’s table stakes to me.

Chrome and Chromium are 99.9% the same. Source: I used to be a Chrome developer at Google.

It does have to be free. It’s open source software. If they tried to charge money for Chrome, people would just use Chromium or one of the other browsers based on it.