viswanathk

So many high school analogies with pg. One wonders if he is trying to say something to his high school self..

> The aim is to start construction of the new tunnel by 2038

Not in my lifetime, I guess.

They are quite together if you're building a platform. You usually have C++ doing all the CPU intensive work/low level IO which is exposed through JNI for any higher level stuff (like web).

JNI >>> Any other interface to C/C++.

Looks like you have not worked much on C++. C++ is literally one of the worst languages for undefined behaviour and when something does go bad, the tooling around the language is so horrendous that it takes days to debug something that can be done within hours in Java.

I spent close to a week on data corruption that would have never been possible in Java.

C++ is not for the weak of heart. It's like the wild west. I have since moved to the civilisation of Java and quite happy here.

Repeal of Glass-Steagall act actually allowed the government to somewhat step away. Some of the well capitalised commercial banks were able to absorb the losses of the investment banks by buying them out when the price was low, and then making more money once the panic ended.