I don't care whether I use Python or C++ or Rust... though I prefer Rust. It's nicer.

- Wikipedia, which has an official stance of ideological filtering

In these post-truth days, impartial facts are considered left wing ideology.

I got a couple temp bans back to back for pointing out to the moderators that the spirit of liberalism and free speech means protecting speech you disagree with.

Translation: I told liberals they should give me a platform to be racist because that's liberal

Once I got off the site I found the real, actual liberalism was being supported more by the right than the left now.

Translation: I found a safe space to be racist

No, the Python APIs are implemented on top of C++. Qt is a fundamentally C++ API and library. Anything other than C++ will be some sort of wrapper.

Agreed, though the trend towards expansion of presidential power through executive orders goes back long before Biden. Back to Reagan, at least, and much of the root of it was in legislation signed by Carter (IEEPA). Every successive administration -- both parties -- has pushed the boundaries. Dubya was probably the worst, mostly because he had the biggest hammer. But the pattern is that each administration takes a bit more and when the other party gets elected, they don't give any of it back.

Very much a "both sides" problem.

Same with Python.

There are a lot of problems with both, but neither deserves the title of worst criminal state. Most hypocritical state, maybe.

It does. I got a notification in early 2025 (running a pre-release Android 16 build) while traveling in NY. I got someone who was working on the feature to pull the detailed logs from my phone and they were able to get quite a bit of detail about what kind of fake tower it was. Pretty cool.

Not if you want to have mobile phone/data service.

If your mobile provider supports VOIP and you have Wifi available (e.g. at home) you can just disable cellular service. Then everything will go through your Internet connection -- and everything is encrypted these days. But that only works when you have Wifi.

(I'm not claiming any equivalence between coffee and heroin, but the "I enjoy it so I don't care about health effects" claim really only works if the health effects are fairly minor.)

You can use Qt from Rust.

My point is that if that low-level stuff is what makes C fun to you, then Rust and C++ will be fun, too... but without all of the drudgery and error-prone crap C makes you do.

If that's not what makes C fun to you, then what is? It's certainly not being able to accomplish a lot quickly; higher-level languages are much better for that.

You didn't give any indication you actually enjoy them.

Are you completely fucking stupid naturally or are you actively trying to be a moron? To pick some things I said:

"I like C++, it's fun"

"I love AWK"

"BASH is my homeboy"

"I quite like PIC asm"

"Shader graphs are just fun"

"Oh yeah and scripting complex actions etc in BOOM compatible engines is let us say, barrels of fun."

If you think that's not giving "any indication" that I "actually enjoy them", then you need your head examined because it ain't working right.

  Again, I don't think you enjoy programming.

Of course you think that, you're a raging moron who can't tell that me saying "I love AWK" is some sort of positive preference.

You are the platonic ideal of the C fanatic. You are so blindly loyal to the language that somehow you read "I love AWK" and come to the conclusion I didn't express enjoyment of it because I don't express loving programming in C anymore.

World's moving on, bucko. The new generation and the security community both are aware that a 1970s language is a little bit long in the tooth for 2026.

That's why you became a manager.

Naw I became a manager because it kind of happened via successive promotions. I think quit something like 3 years ago because I hated not building stuff. Now I make things.

You think using a complex language in FOSS has no strong effects on the community?

What's that got to do with the price of fish? By all means continue slinging nonsequiteurs, I can keep it up all day.

Nope.

Yep.

But I usually know what I am talking about

The evidence suggests otherwise.

I have done real work in > 10 different languages and know a few more.

You seem like a 1 year's experience repeated 10 times rather than 10 years experience sort of chap.

You seem incapable of understanding that language complexity is not the important thing here but overall complexity. Optimizing the former and ignoring the latter makes the overall problem more complex. But you seem to be unable to avoid hyperfocusing on the language at the expense of the problem.

So sure you might know 10 languges, but you're a bad engineer in all of them.

Case in point, I bought a bunch of metric bolts and nuts at Amazon, and they wouldn't screw onto each other. They would get to some random point and the nuts would stop turning. Sometimes it was half an inch up,

There's your problem!

But seriously, this doesn't generally match my experience. I haven't bought nuts and bolts there because they're cheaply and readily available locally, though China is obviously more than capable of making screws at scale. So much consumer electronics is made there, they can certainly do that.

It is strictly a market place, so YMMV, but honestly... it's pretty good.