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My point is, a lot of people are spending time on this when it doesn't matter. In the limit that AI starts replacing human developers these subtle differences in language approaches zero.

New languages here and there every day. Replace this replace that. When, in the end everyone is simply reinventing the "wheel" over-and-over.

All these languages end up as assembly.

Honestly, we need a few AI coders to replace most of the developers in the world and then this won't be an issue. Bounds checking arrays and calloc instead of malloc isn't rocket science. It's a simple formula.

The problem isn't the language it's the developers.

I tend to read undefined as don't do it

Source code is the ultimate documentation. ;)

Solar is better because it is decentralized whereas other sources we have today are controlled by single entities. This puts the power (hehe) back in the hands of the people.

GC is certainly easier. However, it is important to understand the life-cycle of objects regardless. To be able to control them (if desired) is good because in many cases one would prefer to have that control instead of being forced to use garbage collector.

In an ideal world, garbage collector makes sense because we don't want to have to worry about life-cycle management when we are solving other problems. Memory management can indeed be an annoying implementation detail, but as it stands there are certainly limiting factors in hardware which are impacted by generic object-management for specific application domains.

To the contrary, as someone who hasn't used TeX at all I find it somewhat hard to read the plain-text. The $$$ have more visual weight than the actual formulas.

Kind of interesting to see some alternatives and note the visual weight. The back-ticks are by far the best in my opinion. Too bad they are taken by the code blocks! Semicolons are nice though--kind of like a LISP comment.

@@ x^2 + 4x = 10 @@

%% x^2 + 4x = 10 %%

<< x^2 + 4x = 10 >>

$$ x^2 + 4x = 10 $$

`` x^2 + 4x = 10 ``

'' x^2 + 4x = 10 ''

"" x^2 + 4x = 10 ""

;; x^2 + 4x = 10 ;;

\\ x^2 + 4x = 10 //

?? x^2 + 4x = 10 ??

Ah, wasn't aware of that. Thanks. :)

Very awesome. However, the $ signs indicate financial stuff. It would be nice to have a different delimiter like the code blocks use back-tics. For example using back-ticks couple with single-quotes? It doesn't work since it clash with the code block just for example more legible:

`' x^2 + 4x + 4 '`

Remember: the whole idea behind markdown is it should be first and foremost* legible from plain-text. One idea behind typography is it shouldn't be noticed at all to the reader.

And most humans are lazy f%$#s who throw things away rather than recycling them.

What about smart pointers? It gives the flexibility and benefits of garbage-collection without the performance degradation. It's not a silver bullet but it helps.

What I'm getting at is, Rust is the only modern language (in vogue at the moment) that does not use garbage collection. It would be nice if more languages didn't require a garbage collector but gave the option to use one.

If there are some more of such languages please chime in and provide a link to them! :)

Alas, having no garbage collector at all is a blissful state of simplicity when performance matters. It's not very difficult to clean up one's objects manually in a well-thought-out codebase.

Very well put. I have to agree that these technologies are still blooming and there are uncertainties--especially in my mind with cost associated with buying devices. Hololense for example with a $3000.00 USD developer edition isn't exactly accessible to the general community! The next 10 years however will probably be pretty exciting in the AR/VR space.

What about voice-controlled programming though? I always thought it would be nice to voice-control my OS. Not specifically for a text-editor, but as a general interface to the OS. It would be nice to move these features out of the cloud and directly onto systems. But then again, a lot of companies (amazon, microsoft, apple) probably don't want to encourage reverse-engineering of their intellectual property. We definitely need open-source variants.

Better AI chips with lower power-consumption and optimization for these types of operations will hopefully usher in a new set of productivity-enhancing applications!

Sorry I was having a silly day at work. Then, I tried to delete the post but I cannot anymore!

EDIT: But Zuckerberg is a peener when he states that fake news is fake; he's drinking his own Koolaid.