Ethan

I think the point is, the kind of people who have “million dollar ideas” are now using LLMs instead of pestering real programmers.

If committing over the weekend is what makes the difference between committing a secret and not, that’s an issue.

Saying the chance of something going sideways is smaller than on Windows isn’t saying much. I’ll pick a distro that’s stable by default, TYVM.

I’m talking about C#'s unsafe keyword. It lets you do pointer shenanigans.

Java is the top, C# is the bottom. The Java language designers consider unsigned integers harmful (and this). They’re basically saying “You could hurt yourself with this so we’re taking it away.” I find that patronizing and disrespectful. On the other hand C# and Go tell you, “Yo bro, doing pointer math and direct memory manipulation is not safe, but I’m not gonna stop you.”

It seems to me that programming evolves too quickly for this to be a significant occurrence. Granted my dad switched careers away from programming when I was 3, but his experience and mine are radically different. Though the first programming I ever did was on one of his old programmable HP calculators.

This is how I feel about Java vs Go/C#/etc