I know the argument that distribs backport but there should be longer support, especially since there are constant syntax changes in minor versions that might break things. This is valid for python, php and a bunch of other languages.

Sure, in shiny startups willing to break things using the shiniest objects it's not an issue but in practice there may be other constraints

and "just let the distrib maintainers handle it through backports" is not imho the best advice

amaaaaaaaaaazing, color me impressed. give whoever is in charge of said software this week (I vote clippy) a cookie

I thought that walking on water... And therefore running was a belief associated with a different part of the world

it looks like a lot but there is a lot of data that could be collected:
_ Many calls are multiple calls
_ there are failed calls
_ A lot of people will send dozens of texts ... and there will be dozens of replies, each would be separate
_ phones connect to the internet, maybe the actual contents go through ssl but port/ip address pairs is unencrypted, as well as data length
_ there could also be cellular network data like location, provider

I don't want to throw shade at a language that was ground breaking at the time and some cool applications were made with it but I am doubtful it is in position #8

to be fair, advertisers have already been bailing left and alt right for a while

It barely has a VR division despite all efforts

Will the AR also show feet? I've been told it's controversial

Depends, does this shark have a laser ?

By fertility issues, I meant the rate at which people reproduce in general, not chemical issues (as in the summary). Granted words like fertility rate, or natural replacement rate would have worked better and could be clearer, you could still get the idea from the rest of the post

they have fertility issues too to a point china discontinued their one child policy.

even if it weren't so, people are having less children and are marrying later due to improved healthcare and curves that hit countries like US and europe end up causing issues to other countries like china later as healthcare and nutrition/agriculture improves.

it's not one or the other... a lot of things happen simultaneously

long story short, before you can say it doesn't check out, you have to examine a lot of environmental factors

somebody mod this up, that was funny and insightful

Agreed, which is why I ended that sentence by saying it should be optional - so languages like rust who are not a match are not impeded

If it's indeed 4k, then after, not much network overhead. My hunch says it should be more for something full fledged.

With that said, having a built in optional GC is not necessarily a bad idea, melted barrier to entry lower, easier to optimize. It's is they don't allow languages like rust to do their thing that's going to be a pain

It does when it comes to web: I remember reading a study a few years ago that a fraction of a second delay would mean someone was less likely to read the page.

Smaller file, means faster load time - A big part of the reason behind WASM is improving load time and performance. It might not matter for a hello world but for larger apps, it probably does

Plenty of "sleep/dream inventions" but I admit I'm dubious on this one