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My opinion is quite the opposite.

With a small program, it's rarely difficult to work out what's going on. If your small program develops a performance problem, it's usually fairly tractable to work out what's going on, and modify it. In extremis, you can just rewrite the whole thing.

Large programs are another matter. Hidden control flows in C++ (for example) can make pinning down performance problems extremely difficult. And then widespread refactoring can be extremely challenging.

Zig forces everything to be an explicit interface, which should make maintenance work on large programs much more tractable.

Is that based on actual data?

It seems wild to me that a (subjectively?) pretty-looking site will make more money, even if it's excluding a large proportion of its potential users by ignoring localisation, or usability.

I'd love to see the studies you base that on.

Just get a bike, and stop moaning.

Muslim fascists and Western fascists are on the same side here. They both want the same thing... a world defined by hatred of the other.

There is zero contradiction on opposing both of them.

Racial discrimination is illegal where I live, and I believe that's a good thing. Political parties that advocate racism are simply antithetical to the whole concept of liberal democracy.

If the local baker is a racist, then I'll buy my bread elsewhere. It's pretty simple.

I down voted you because you accused the GP of bad faith, rather than genuinely engaging with their point.

Don't dig yourself further into that hole by slinging "bad faith" around willy nilly.

How is "LGBT" left wing??

Furthermore, I'm not in the US, but "US politics" doesn't seem to have much left wing about it either.

> how are all the people who insult Trump on social media still alive or not locked up

I think you'll find that some of them actually are locked up, and a few of them are dead.

> in The Netherlands it was €210 for a 40 minute ride

That's much more than taxis cost in the UK, and pretty expensive even for the Netherlands. You have great cycling infrastructure, and public transport though.

Renting a car is an affordable alternative to ownership, if you need to go to occasional concerts or birthday parties, and public transport happens to be inconvenient for your specific destination. I did that for years - the rental company would deliver and collect from my workplace, so it's super-easy.

> If your children play football you really need a car.

A friend of mine used to ferry his son 1000s of km per year to ice-hockey matches around the country, so I know what you mean. I don't understand it though - if the whole team is travelling, why don't they just rent a bus? Personally, I don't think it's healthy for a child's hobby to consume so much of the parents' time - of course, your choice.

What??

On what planet is getting your groceries on a bike "more privileged" than driving?

I'd say that the vast majority of people who live in a city both work, and socialise almost exclusively there.

If I don't care about secure boot today, but might in the future, is this something I need to care about right now?

A landlord is doing exactly the same thing as an investor. They are tying up their capital in exchange for an income, and the possibility of a capital gain.

I use Docusign on Firefox, no problem.