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That framing makes more sense to me. I agree there's a difference between publishing code under an OSS license and actively maintaining a project while fielding the flood of low-qu…

This sounds to me like the "No True Scotsman" argument. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_true_Scotsman I break down what you said as: "Sure, he's released code with an open-source …

I presume we are talking about GUI programs: A. Delphi --- easy choice (or C++ Builder if I had to use C++) B. Also Delphi --- it supports macOS (arm64 + x64), Linux, and Windows I…

That article is from 2011. I can imagine that in 13 years this may no longer be true.

The open-source Hidden Bar is my current solution to this problem, but I think I prefer this native fix. https://github.com/dwarvesf/hidden brew install --cask hiddenbar

Perl's still got a special place in my heart, but honestly, I don't use it much these days. I mainly bring it out when I'm processing a lot of text or writing scripts to be used by…

> After Heilsberg moved to MS, a lot of improvements were made in VB that utlimately made Delphi less attractive Well, not actually. With Anders' move to Microsoft, VB6 (aka, VB "c…

Having worked with both Delphi and Visual Basic, I've found that Delphi had the edge, especially for professional apps. Its use of Object Pascal meant you got compiled, efficient c…

Without an understanding of their motive, I think tying "google" to a person's mental health crisis is clickbait. Folks dealing with mental health issues might end their lives for …

THIS!! A high-quality cross-platform GUI toolkit that can be built using Delphi's RAD designer would be a huge hit in the market, IMHO. There is literally nothing that does this no…

This is true, I did not use the platform as a user. I know it solves business problems and theyve built a big moat. My commentary is on the company culture and focus on sales over …

Salesforce is a sales and marketing company that was founded (and is led) by a brilliant sales and marketing person in Marc Benioff. They are not now, and never have been, and engi…

The number of them isn't as relevant as their usage. Lots of data science related modules are effectively wrappers around C code. Here's a few: NumPy pandas Matplotlib TensorFlow P…

Similar statements have been made about most dominant technology when it was in its infancy. You are not wrong, but it can quickly go from novelty to necessity once folks start to …

All good points. Windows still very much dominates desktops / laptops sold (especially large corp environments)...so the default installed Edge browser + Bing is a significant shar…

> Good luck running a jar built with JDK19 on JRE8, or an executable linked against glibc2.36 on Ubuntu 18, or a Python file written for Python 3.10 on a system that comes with Pyt…

But what if you just write a Python3 script and want to run it? Not a full blown application, but just a script. I mean the Python ecosystem is such that now I have to "package" up…

> Take some ownership of your problems, even if the ecosystem provides them -- they are chosen, and can be managed. Huh? This has a strong "No, it's the children who are wrong" vib…

> I’m not trying to dispute whether it’s a problem. I agree it’s a problem. ack > I’m saying that avoiding Python because of it is illogical (to me) because the problems they’re de…

> I have no time for whinging snowflakes complaining 12 years (2020-2008) was not enough time to migrate their code to Python 3. Hell, even the original 7 years (2015-2008) should …

Yes, but *which* Python3? Are you getting one with f-strings support? Because if you aren't, now you've got to install that. How about one with dataclasses support? Again, you get …

> Tons of other languages have version requirements as part of their end user experience. That does not dispute the original claim though. It's still a problem for Python even when…

"rant"? Is that what a criticism of a technology that you like is called? I feel your response is best summarized as: "I like Python. I've never had this problem and don't think it…

Eevee also dismissed with this argument as well in the same article: https://eev.ee/blog/2012/04/09/php-a-fractal-of-bad-design/ > Do not tell me that Facebook and Wikipedia are bu…

FTA: > Otherwise, the only thing that matters is that the tool works. Every tool comes with its own upsides and downsides, but most of them are increasingly the same. They mostly d…