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As one who was interested by Nim and tried it out for some personal projects, I found that this was the biggest problem with the project. There's several options for any given need…

The stakes of changing the way so many people work can't be seen in a short term. Could be good or bad. Probably it will be both, in different ways. Margarine instead of butter see…

Because it's rules for us and not for them. If I take Microsoft's code and "transform" it I get sued. If Microsoft takes everyone else's code and "transforms" it (and sells it back…

You are probably thinking of this by Chris Lattner: https://forums.swift.org/t/core-team-to-form-language-workgr... (on HN here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30416070 ) Swi…

There can be no clearer example than iTunes's downgrade into the awful Music and somehow even worse Podcasts. On the plus it has invogorated the 3rd party space.

> Perhaps biggest of all Swift doesn’t need a runtime like Obj-C Swift most certainly has a runtime: https://github.com/apple/swift/tree/main/stdlib/public/runti... And most or all…

That was almost seven years ago now. It has been the String API twice as long as it has not been the API.

> There's no reason to privilege any one of these, and Swift doesn't do this. Strange thing to say: Swift String count property is the count of extended grapheme clusters. The docu…

Without a source code license somewhere on site (I don't see any after looking around) you had better not copy-paste these into a next project. The default state if there's no expl…

Also he's got to approaching retirement age at this point, and there is no backbench corps of other DTS who do what he does. Maybe another decade we'll have his help, then what?

I'm still not sure how I feel about the actual copyright issue, but this was a bad test case. Thaler is trying to have his cake and eat it too; his position is inconsistent (this s…

Assuming that the linked post is accurate and that the "approval from senior leadership" to turn the dump back on does not come...then yes, I would say so. Actually there is alread…

This was one of the promises originally of Stack Overflow: all the content is Creative Commons licensed so that if they "turned evil" (I believe it was Joel that put it this way) t…

Is it really necessary to defend your language preference by ridiculing the alternative and those who wish to use it?

A citation is needed for the number of iOS projects that have more than a minuscule amount of code at the application level that risks memory unsafety.¹ The value proposition becom…

GP was most likely thinking not of large roundabouts that take the place of major intersections, but the smaller traffic-calming type where the center can be as minimal as a 3 foot…

This idea ("make a stronger license") has come up in previous discussions of Copilot as well[0]. The problem is that the Copilot project doesn't claim to be abiding by the license(…

Some core designers of Swift, at least Doug Gregor, John McCall, Dave Abrahams, were very much part of the C++ world. Abrahams mentions Gregor's proposals for C++ here: https://you…

You do have to remember to use it, but the thing to keep in mind is that you can pipe a list of ANYTHING into it. Any list of text items you can search through with a text query is…

> monitoring that many cameras is impractical Regardless of how many there are, I believe the point is not to monitor them live but to have recordings if the store wants to bring c…

Plagiarism and copyright infringement have some overlap but they're distinct. You can be guilty of plagiarism by taking something in the public domain and presenting it as your own…

Why would you expect the AI to not be a paid service like a human tutor is? ChatGPT has a $0 tier, but it's also in a publicity phase, and they already have a "pro" subscription ti…