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Understood but you could expect a customer support to be candid about it.

They brushed me off with unpleasant tone + fake promises.

Back in March I was super excited to order the "shipping in June" librem 14 laptop. Contacted support, was told august 1st, no news.

I would stay clear of this company. They might have good intentions but clearly they suck at supply chain.

Hard test scores reflect some sort of aptitude at least. The fact that higher income students get them is a second order effect with many many causes that need to be addressed separately.

Legacy checkbox reflects absolutely nothing other then nepotism.

Here in France, elite STEM schools run a series of highly competitive exams that consist of a series of written tests and oral interviews over several weeks. These are brutal, students basically prepare for them for 2 to 3 years and there is no alternate way to trick your way in. Not if you're a billionaire.

The system is far from perfect: only a teeny tiny fraction of students who make it are from poor/underprivileged backgrounds (some do). Yes it is infinitely easier to prepare for these exams in a middle class family than in a ghetto.

Yet it still seems an order of magnitude MORE FAIR then checking whether daddy is a big donor to the school. Or having SATs that are so ridiculously easy that we're gonna have to fallback on whether you were a member of the theater club.

So? Bucklescript was invented at Bloomberg IIRC

reasonML / reasonML + bucklescript amount to about 25%, it's been out for 4 years while CAML was out for 30+.

Yet the wording makes it sound like it's disappointing "used by only 25%", "maybe the survey was not advertized enough in the Reason community".

Actually, the fact that someone can show up with a transpiler that makes the language curly braces friendly and get 25% market share just like that is just puzzling.

I find it a little weird to mix applications and libraries in the same list. But if libraries are considered, I would definitely nominate Hibernate: the most powerful ORM out there accross all languages, and it's been a must grab for any of my projects for almost 2 decades.