This guy jumps from one buzzword tech du jour to the next with nothing to show for the previous massive investment. If I was a shareholder, I'd sell-sell-sell.

First, the Tiobe index is rubbish, mainly counting how many times people ask about a language on social media. It doesn't measure usage popularity.

I've been a developer on both Ada and Fortran compilers, though my Ada experience ended around 1985, while I continue to be involved with Fortran today. I love Ada as a language - I used to say that if you could get an Ada program to compile, it would probably work. Ada also strongly influenced important features in modern Fortran, including modules and submodules. I also spent a week with Ada creator Jean Ichbiah's company Alsys in France, beta testing our compiler.

"Systems programming language" would not be my term for Ada, but as I was responsible for a real-time and embedded system Ada product, I suppose it qualifies. When the DoD dropped its requirement to use Ada, interest in the language fell off a cliff, despite its benefits. Fortran is NOT a systems programming language - it excels at scientific and engineering applications, though in my career I have seen it used for many things outside that scope, including the file system for PRIMOS in the late 70s. Fortran continues to evolve and, in many ways, leads other languages in standardizing parallelism. Fortran 2023 is the current standard, and work on the next revision is in progress.

I'm happy to see a resurgence of Ada but note that it doesn't seem to have much in the way of vendor support, unlike Fortran.

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in modern history

How about the US, period?

Their kids didn't. Treating everyone like an island is ultimately the purest form of the cancer that infects the US.

"those goals seem to be nearly impossible to attain"

Is it impossible to obtain - the national ethos sees absolutely no problem with the unbounded consolidation of wealth and power, so long as it is in the private sector.

The joke is the private sector is so powerful at this point, your public sector is just a sock with the private sector's hand up its ass.

That'll never change as long as the concept of even moderate, reasonable redistribution of wealth is a national non-starter. It's impressive watching the way the US twists itself this way and that, where everybody is just a temporarily embarrassed billionaire voting for less taxes, less spending to make their supposed future rich selves happy for when they finally join the billionaire class.

Did you understand anything in that marketdroid BS? I didn't.

All this screams to me is: avoid - avoid - avoid.

and summer is ultra-messed-up too here. We've had 2 days at 64 degrees this year, but otherwise it barely goes above 50. It's really rare here to have such a long, sustained bout of cold weather around midsummer.

"Sane people use C for that" for embedded systems? That's a very "all i know I leaned from Slashdot" definition of embedded systems you must have

The tech world isn't the "intellectual" class. It's the crass profit-at-all-costs business class. That's why they market AI: they know perfectly well AI is shit and nobody but corporate bean counters want it, but corporate bean counters is where the money is.

It's becoming a selling point.

Hell, I even watched a video leaked from some OnlyFans account that had the preamble "This content creator prides herself in making her own content herself entirely: no AI bullshit involved!" If the porn industry rejects it, you know it's bad for business.

Dunno if you're a programmer or not, but if you're not extensively testing and verifying what you wrote before you put it in production, you're doing it wrong.

You have to verify and test *all* code. LLMs are great for producing a bunch of boiler plate code that would take a long time to write and is easily testable. The claim that LLMs are useless for programming flies in the face of everything happening in the ivoriest of towers of programming these days. Professionals in every major shop in the world use it now as appropriate. Sorry that makes you mad. I'm not young either. I've been producing C++ on embedded systems used by millions of people for 20+ years. Nobody doing serious programming takes the "LLMs are useless" opinion seriously anymore.

I don't want AI slop in the kernel I rely on for work. Fuck that guy.

Sadly I run Sway.

As for RDP, if your internet is speedy enough, it's fine. I work remotely regularly and I RDP into my Linux box at work no problem.