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Not trying to offend anyone at all but this is a prescription for the symptom not the disease. M$FT marketing would loooove to create WindowsLite. In fact the did it already back i…

Herb Sutter's presentation from C++ On Sea

What general area if I may ask?

Well said

Made my day :)

I would like to ask a genuine question (not trying to provoke anyone!). Where is a good use case for Scheme these days (in any form?). I really love the idea of the language but I …

100%

Async is great... all those times a thread is waiting for even fractions of a second can now be easily put to use... using the same thread if needed (a big win for single threaded …

I think everyone here assumes that Capita actually tried to use the 113 million and so they are confused as to why the website is so poor. It’s much more likely that about 10 milli…

Ultima IV for me.... Good times

... but with garbage collection

Lisps are all very, very cool -- you basically get to build your own world. And the macros -- so powerful. But the parens! Not the number of them, as that is about the same as othe…

I think some of the comments here are unfair to Crystal and the careful thought (and lots of work!) that has been put into it. Projects like this should not be so easily dismissed …

I followed the directions to the letter, and everything installed correctly on MacOS. When I tried the same on Linux, though, I got tons of the following errors on the build step (…

A reasonable question, but the reality is that C++ is the ONLY choice for certain fields (basically anything where you need a high-performance "engine" under the hood). Finance, ga…

Google Bill Clinton North Korea deal... there ya go.

Apparently nobody liked Fruitcake 100 years ago either

Do these actually run faster than the code produced by a good compiler? Benchmarks?

I just skimmed the article, but if that was a crackhouse then wouldn't it be in a bad neighborhood? Then once their shiny new place becomes known to the local denizens, break-ins g…

Wonder what kind of "charitable donation" he made for that?

Very Bridgewater-eque ...and the employees "wanted" this? I doubt it. Seriously, did I misinterpret this? Not trying to be a troll.

Embrace.... extend.... extinguish. Be very careful when an OS vendor makes a move like this.

This seems to be the same anti-competitive behavior that Microsoft was often found guilty of and chastised for. Come on Apple, please don't become an Evil Empire.

That is not a bug, that's a feature!