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Support for unsafe constructs is almost critical to a languages success. There are certain things that just cannot be done safely, and any language that wants to be considered a sy…

Slow is relative. On my machine I can compile all of Chromium in ~15 minutes. I am one hugely impatient person when it comes to compile times, so I watch things closely. But just l…

I would choose C++ because the tooling is superb, talent is widely available, it is performant, there are libraries for pretty much everything, and it's a great language. Oh and by…

Excellent explanation! Couldn't have said it better myself.

I don't understand your claim that C++ is dying. Do you have data to back this up?

Normal people? Exactly what is a normal person there, Einstein.

I know there used to be several .net groups in the area. Consider learning an environment that has local exposure. That may be the case with python, but I don't python. Also, if yo…

Iirc AGPL states that basically you must make the source to your entire application available to users, both the client and server side. I believe many misinterpret this to mean yo…

The Raspberry Pi 2 port is not complete, but it is well on its way (props to benpye who did the bulk of the work.) The FreeBSD port is a community effort as well.