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Cake day: October 28th, 2023

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  • What’s funny is Java solved an issue that is pretty much non-existent in today’s environment: compatibility.

    It’s much less like the Wild West these days. People have a clearer picture of what to support, how to support it, and generic tools to abstract platform-specific code.

    I like Java. I think they did good things and had a pragmatic approach to the problems they were trying to solve.

    But time goes on, and this young discipline progresses fast. It’ll be interesting to see decades from now what languages survive and which ones don’t.

    I predict as time goes on, we’ll get fewer big languages (popular, widespread, useful, etc.) and they will stick around for much longer.

    Kind of like human language, if you think about it.


  • I don’t really thing the security ‘guarantees’ of rust matter that much.

    I think it’s a better language to work in than C or C++, though. That’s not a reason to change utilities now, but a larger Rust ecosystem is always better in my humble opinion.








  • A lot of it is an instinctual response.

    Hearing ‘jews this, jews that’ since birth causes people to want to ‘fit in’ and go along with what everyone else is doing even if they don’t understand it.

    I was surprised by how much anti-Semitism existed when I went to high school, because I never experienced it before outside of South Park. For everyone else, it was just normal and understood (even if they didn’t support it.) It really cemented the idea in my mind that most people do things without thinking just to fit in with others.