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No, back in the day C was used for everything. Vim was not written in C because it needed to wring every last bit of performance out of text editing.

Rewriting everything in rust "for memory-safety" is a false tradeoff given the millions of lines of C code out there and the fact that rewrites always introduce new bugs.

There's a contingent of rust fans that show up on every story about C – their premise is that C code is unsafe and most safety-critical C code should be rewritten in rust.

Fil-C is new and is a viable competitor to rust, that's why you're hearing all asides about tiny niches, unacceptable performance degradation, etc.

It's a false premise, cities do not grow endlessly. If you look at other cities they're actually losing population – NYC for example.

Well the problem with SF is less density and more than half of it is single-family home neighborhoods with zero amenities.

Anti-growth people will point to neighborhoods like Glen Park, NoPa and Noe as "SF" while forgetting most of the surface area of the city is empty neighborhoods like Parkside, Mt Davidson Manor, etc.

What did you/do you use the semantic web for?

It really feels like all these concerns about semantic everything belong to a previous era of the web. I remember arguing with people 20 years ago who believed RDF and the semantic web was going to take over, but the use cases never materialized.

When's the last time you paid for a compiler?

This is just pushing the externalities to the residents. It takes several months for airbnbs to get banned, and it's tough for smaller cities to get the bans enforced.

There must be a better answer than "pass a law so the american multinational does a better job at regulating its rentals"

It could also be misguided security guidelines – because of things like caller id spoofing where scammers would spoof one of their actual numbers to lull people into a false sense of security

Not to detract from your point but the movie was (already!) 15 years ago

Is this the end of fog creek? I remember they had shut down most of their services by the time their rebranded to glitch.

I wonder if anything is left of the company besides Joel's blog posts.

Most poor people don't own their house and often don't have a car – if you do own both you're middle class.