Java doesn't require boilerplate, but some of the lousy popular frameworks do.

More popular means that you won't be left with a technology that nobody supports anymore (like Smalltalk or VB).

But for the top languages it doesn't matter, except some new programmers will refuse to work in what they perceive as "dying" languages.

And now accuse Peter Gutmann of the same. I dare you.

Incidentally, I know what is at stake. But I also, quite unlike you, understand why "QCs" are not a credible threat.

You still have not read or understood what I wrote. There is nothing wrong with Physics experiments. There is a lot wrong with claiming Physics experiments are computers, when they are anything but.

My main objection with C# is I can't stand it's Pascal Case.

object.MyMethod()

Yuck.

I need a 300 mile range

This exists.

range and a 4 hour turn around

You can just about do that at home on AC if you have a good connection. It's only a 32A 3 phase connection.

I want to take the wife out to a movie in the evening after a long commute.

You want a 300 mile range, right? If you're commuting 250 miles round trip and then another, say, 50 to the cinema, frankly you need to evaluate your life choices. You're wasting your life on the road.

You didn't notice the "Even in America ..." part of TFS?

Despite what the article claims, the YTD data doesn't yet reflect the recent change in political winds. America looks to be bucking another worldwide trend once the dust over the loss of the EV tax credit settles. It wouldn't be the first time, but if I mention any of the other issues where the US is also an outlier among first world nations, that'd be off-topic.

The one notable exception to this was that there was a significant number of Chevy Bolts that ended up with brand new batteries due to the recall. Those ended up being a sleeper hit when it came to getting a cheap used EV.

Still, that wasn't a car that's for everyone. It suffers some pretty serious range loss in places that actually have a winter, and the DC fast charging curve is slow. Realistically, you have to figure about an hour to go from 20%-80%, which isn't too bad if you're combining it with a meal, but for any trips where you want to go beyond the car's initial range plus whatever a single charging stop gets you, the waiting will become tedious.

I so want twenty years ago back.

The only one who found that line noteworthy was you.

The rest of us only find it noteworthy in the context it was in.

The current administration wanted to do that by imposing a national vehicle registration fee for EVs. Some states already do this with higher registration fees for EVs (and oddly enough, not all of the states are red ones).

You might want to look into the problems they've been having with their ICCUs. It actually bit the Technology Connections YouTube guy, which was kind of funny because he'd been a big fan of his Ioniq 5 until it shit itself. I think lately he's been fixing up a Nissan Cube with a standard tranny. That's an odd pivot from an EV, but I guess he's begun to value having a car that is based on tech you can wrench yourself when things go wrong.

The EV tax credit still existed until September 30 of this year, so it's a bit premature to say everything is still peachy keen regarding EV sales. GM is expecting a sales slump and has adjusted production accordingly. Tesla also recently announced new a stripped-down base model tier for both their Model 3 and Model Y vehicles, something they'd realistically only be doing if they anticipated, shall we say, challenging market conditions.

Not all of them, but most of them. Which is one reason why they like LLMs so much.

You seem to be disconnected from reality. The problem are not tariffs. The problems are unpredictably changing tariffs.