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It's more like the Amish not using certain technology we all take for granted.

I see this much broader: opting out of certain technologies.

As a vegan I opt out of all animal domestication/husbandry and wild catch/hunt.

And I try to stay away from refined sugar and refined starches.

Abortion is also a technology people feel strongly about.

And now we have the use of AI.

Did we also have people that did not want to use an electronic calculator when it just came out? Probably.

Linux (Linus T himself iirc) is very GPLv2.

They are not onboard with the innovation that was GPLv3. That innovation was mostly about software patents iirc. But the result was also that big corps liked GPLv3 even less than GPLv2.

On top of that it was going to be very hard (near impossible) to get all devs to agree to a v2->v3 license bump.

Are people allowed to not want islam big in their home town?

Why can every country be "proud of their culture" and "want to conserve their culture" except white/christian countries?

Why is black-pride, or gay-pride, or african-pride, or XYZ-pride all very acceptable, except white-pride and christian-pride? The pushed narrative is obvious to me.

So how is it "extremist, anti-democratic organisation"? you bring no proof. I have to believe you on it?

If you are done with mass-immigration in Germany, you get no sizable party to vote for because they all have been demonstrably in favour of the immigrant flood. Except AfD. Why no other party caters to the done-with-immigration demographic? If you deny your constituency for too long you are bound to create a new powerful player.

Now please show you proof...

I think you should be able to voice any policital opinion. But following the MSM narrative of calling every party that wants to stop mass-immigration as "far right" or "extreme right" has no meaning to me anymore.

We have "utilities on the market" now. So we get to choose between the color of logo on the invoice. Every year we can switch around new year. Then lots of marketing is going on: people going door to door as well...

For sure I now pay for all these marketing campaigns: they all offer a cheap first year. So I have to switch yearly to get a good "welcome present" (that the non-switchers are paying for me).

Privatizing a commodity-service, that utilities are (electrons/water/gas -- it's all very standardized) is the most ridiculous to me. The innovation a supplier can bring you is mostly it's marketing campaign.

You said:

> Rust’s type system and borrow checker are not significant reasons for its compile times

But isn't "hard" monomorphization a property of more complex type systems (generics, type variables, etc.)?

You can have naked (top-level) functions in Python right? Are they also in instances of classes?

Kotlin has optional OOP on the JVM. I still use it, but sparingly. Barely ever classes inherit from other classes in my code; I use interfaces, mostly to be able to fake services for testing.

Most of what I write are functions and data objects (records, basically).

One pattern I use is classes with one function, where the constructor takes the functions dependencies, and the function only takes non-dependency parameters.

Not sure what you mean by modern C++ code.

But Rust's type system an borrow checker are not something you want to go without in Rust, while in C++ many codebases prevent the use of some features to reduce compile time right?

Predominantly trained on atheist text maybe?

Also, would you want to know an LLM's religious/spiritual orientation? I rather have it help me code.

No, "CloudFlare going all in on Rust" means that the code they write and maintain is rewritten.

> P.S. I've tried Zig [...]

Why not Zig then, and C instead?

As a C/Zig outsider, I'd much rather read Zig.

Yes, at least Rust and Zig have answers for the remaining niches.

Rust's type system is making it's compile times bigger than C, C++ and Zig. This does keep it away from some code that's currently C or C++.