mau

the article complains about ux, not capabilities. In this case it is complaining about the defaults.

I think humans are still accountable for the code generated by agents.

You are free to switch language but you still need to understand it.

German-style strings is a way to store array of strings for columnar dbs. The idea is to have an array of metadata. Metadata has a fixed size (16 bytes) The metadata includes the string length and either a pair of pointer + string prefix or the full string for short strings. For some operations the string prefix is enough in many cases avoiding the indirection.

This is different from Pascal strings.

> Your coworkers and QA will thank you for learning LINQ and ditching the imperative methods that plague your Python brain.

This is a very unfortunate joke: Python has list (and generator) comprehension expression for a long time (2.3?) which are similar to LINQ. At some point in the history many languages stole useful expressions from other paradigms.

Let’s joke on BASIC, it always works.