I will argue against strict adherence to this statement. Gnome applications written to the project guidelines have become very fine, since the introduction of GTK-4 and libadwaita. I prefer many of these to their equivalents on MacOS.

It's true that most of these fall into a general category of "utilities", and that Windows enjoys a broader ecosystem driven by commercial incentive. But Windows programs are hardly "better' for this, and the widely varied usability is generally sub-par compared to level that's become norm for Gnome/Adwaita software.

Spam generation?

I'm sure Donny has good intentions with his plan to bring the 1950's back, including Fonzie, but Xi is just 20x brighter.

"We will close the Buzzword Gap with the West. We will have state of the art Buzzwords that China's people can be proud of!"

To a certain extent, I don't disagree. I think programming via LLM is an insane goal, and frankly will just lead back to something akin to a programming language, just more poorly defined. Learning some arcane incantation to get consistently good answers isn't anything I would stake a career on.

But it really HAS been useful to me when I'm trying to learn new programming languages because the state of documentation is so poor. As long as I have links back to source documentation, I can read up if something goes wrong. And for things like giving me tasks and writing questions to test my knowledge, it's quite good.

It's a pretty good tool, and given the energy/environmental costs, I wouldn't actually be sad if it were shut down. But it can occasionally make my life easier as long as I use it judiciously.

The average human fouls it up 46%.

But he's still popular. Humans are not Vulcans, they care about "owning the enemy", not logic.

NufsedGPT

I guess I slept thru that end, who knew?

He may seem random and dumb, but has a horse-sense for knowing how trigger morons to rally around his hairbrained ideas. Even Palin hadn't fully mastered that.

...naked now?

...just switch to Lazarus, it has better garbage collection.

Addendum

I'd prefer "req" over "required" as it would be used often: frequent tokens/idioms should be short. And "str" instead of "string".

One could put ranges and other decorations, perhaps custom ones:

var x:num.range(0, 99.99);
var s:str.maxLen(12);
var s:maxLen(120); // shorter version of above, strings don't need explicit types.
var u; // untyped, but treated as string by default
var foo=7; // automatically "int" based on constant.
var fi=7.0; // automatically num (decimal*)

(Variable declarations and parameter declarations use similar conventions)

* Treated as decimal by default, but big exponents will automatically bump its storage from 16 bits to 64 bits.

For one, get away from C-based syntax, at least the ugly parts. Second, don't overload "+" for both concatenation and math (Js); that was bigly stupid. Third, give us optional named parameters. Anonymous objects are not a good substitute. Fourth, clean up name-space management instead of using a hacked-on "fix".

Example function declaration:

func myFunc(aa, bb:int, cc:num.required, dd:required, ee:int=7) {...}

This example is "semi-typed" as "aa" doesn't require a type (is not validated). "dd" doesn't require a type but can't be white-space-only or null. "ee" is initialized with "7" if not passed in a call or is blank/null.

I've yet to find a newer language that has all the features listed.

Moot because those guys aren't any longer anyhow, as half died in a theater panic after a faker yelled "fire!" and the other half drank Clorox to prevent Covid.