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Oh, of course. It's okay to kill migrant workers, as long as I don't create pretty products. Apple is like any other company, it doesn't matter how they paint themselves. What matters is the peoples lives that are being ruined.

Looks good.

Records and retention is a large part of my current project. It permeates even the lowest levels, and it's practically impossible for the narrative to occur. I say practically impossible, because there is always some way some idiot can screw up big enough that this happens, but this narrative didn't happen. I'd stake 3 digits on it.

Bullshit.

It would be great to post an image of what this looks like in a couple code examples. I've been working on this as well, primarily because I haven't seen a syntax that gets it right, usually it's rushed or sloppy, and some just really get the syntax wrong. with off false positives appearing all over.

> A more pessimistic outcome is that powerful AI arrives before we've really thought through the moral and ethical issues, and it possibly destroys us, or is developed and exploited by military interests to who knows what outcome.

But it's not a very likely one. Spontaneous AI is almost impossible, primarily because we design and control the substrate. AI is very very hard, and when we get there, it will be very unlikely that it turns on us, or at least not for a millennia or two. This fear is a result of some seriously good sci-fi stories, but not a lot of logic or fact,

I'm good with options, but I like the way Lua is, as it is. I don't really accept that types are needed for safety in my games, or any application I've used Lua (okay, almost exclusively games). What would be the use cases for this? In my tiny brain, it makes as much sense as dynamic C.

It's a bold claim, but I haven't seen anything to back it up. I haven't tried all the apps made with the framework, but I haven't seen too many heavy apps that would require the power. Every game is a puzzler of some sort it seems. Nothing to really test if it is fast enough for gaming, or time critical operations.

I agree, there are more than a few features I'd like to see C# adopt from this, and that's a big one. Proper string interpolation is another.

Ruby isn't fast enough, and it would chew battery on a phone and make some apps impossible to do correctly. Ruby is a great language, it's my favourite hands down, but all that sugar comes at a cost. Even in ruby, we often use c libs to do the heavy lifting, they're just wrapped by ruby using the C extension framework.

Scala, yes, but not C++ at all. Indirectly from C#, perhaps (and there is a fair bit of that), but there is very little that borrows from C++ at the language level.

Thank you, you made my day. Though in truth, I'm not very brave, I'm single, without wife, girlfriend, or kids, or anyone really depending upon me. And I work for government because I got tired of making rich men richer. I'm an idealist, and an idiot in truth. But thank you.

That was a calculation, assuming that they would loose more in the suit than in opening up it's patents, this isn't the same at all, though it is a direct response to the question.