The old UI design wizards generally seem to agree things are degrading.

But now everything looks so modern and polished, though. Rounded corners! Pleasing and low-contrast so it won't cause injuries.

Yes although they dearly wanted to end that also. Starting recently it requires waiting 24 hours to enable side loading. And there's nothing that prevents them from shutting off side loading frequently, requiring another 24 hour wait for the next time.

Apparently the EDS blocks it because malicious txt files can cause arbitrary LISP code execution. Also Vim and Neovim are often apparently blocked for similar concerns. Fortunately VS Code has a Vim mode.

What a world we live in. I remember laughing at the thought of an image or text file being able to compromise a system.

Yeah that does sound crazy. You'll have to provide a lot more detail than that!

I mean EMACS *is* a LISP interpreter. It's kind of what it does, run scripts from any user-provided source. Heck you can shell script with "#!/usr/bin/env emacs --script".

Meanwhile Google illegally cut down 1.5 million trees in Finnland to make way for a data center. While this is small scale compared to deforestation in other places, this devastated the local environment and will have consequences for generations. It's pretty sickening really. Way to be not evil, Google.

Well they have a funny way of showing it then. Because much of Trump's crackdown is targeting legal immigrants. In fact very little of it is directly targeted at preventing illegal immigration.

No idea but the Russians have been using their microwave weapons against American diplomatic personnel for the last 10 years with devastating effectiveness. Seems that they have been targeting personnel and their families who served in the Ukraine stations.

Also Canadian diplomatic personnel have been targeted too by the Russians.

Ironic they are developing this weapon while at the same time denying that Havana syndrome is real and accusing the victims in the diplomatic core of mass hysteria. Not that long ago they bought a weapon on the black market from the Russians. I'm sure they have been testing it extensively while they make their own version of it.

I note that even a hybrid kernel would require a compatibility layer to provide all the userspace stuff including the the display environment, access to the Unix file system, etc.

As far as compatibility layers go, years ago there was one called Merge which supported win32 on Unix. It was a commercial offering. I actually used a derivative of this back in the windows 95 days to run Windows 95 apps on Linux. Sadly they never made the transition to supporting modern windows NT apps.

Hint: You cannot run win32 apps on a unix kernel without a compatibility layer of some kind! (Which is what WINE *is*.) There's no way around this to get seamless win32 binary support. You either need to have WINE integrated into the OS and desktop environment, or some other implementation of win32 in the OS that translates win32 calls into kernel calls and unix libraries for I/O, screen display, etc. Or some kind of hybrid kernel.

All of this is true whether you're running windows apps on *nix or wanting to run Linux apps on FreeBSD, or Linux apps on Windows. What do you think WSL is?

Tight integration between WINE and the OS and desktop environment is certainly possible. If Wine were actually "finished" then I'm sure distros would be doing this. Meanwhile only MS could produce a true 100% win32 compatibility layer for Unix OS's.

Right. You mean with a compatibility layer like WINE. And that's literally what WINE is. An implementation of the win32 platform for the Linux (and now BSD) kernel.

Obviously. But the agents will suggest an appropriate language if asked. I suspect Rust is being recommended more and more.
And agents regularly do make arbitrary decisions if you don't explicitly tell them what to do. For example I know someone working on a large project and the agent chose python and some Tk-based UI library without being asked.

And like I said, it doesn't matter if I know Rust or not anymore. I can simply choose it (because it's popular, or because it is "safe") and the agent will go to work.

With more and more software development being turned over to AI coding agents, in many respects the language itself no longer matters. However I'm not surprised Rust is growing in popularity, driven by AI code generation. And it's a good match for that. While a lot of human developers find Rust difficult to learn and work with, AI agents have no such difficulties and the Rust compiler guarantees help mitigate some of the problems from mediocre, generated code.

I've seen quite a few projects introduced lately that all use AI code generation and Rust. And frankly that's probably the only way I'm going to use Rust myself.

Very few Android phones have home buttons these days. Usually they just have the power button and volume buttons. Home is either a swipe or a soft, on-screen button.

Not CodeWeave either.