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Comment Re:Male (Score 1) 46

Plenty of female gamers.

In fact most online games have a span of 45% - 55% of both genders, one game more in one direction the other one more into the other.

There might be male dominated online games, but that would most likely be games no one really knows about.

Background: World of Warcraft, Eve online, Grand Theft xyz ... they are all full with females.

Comment Re:Trust? (Score 1) 71

"unsafe stuff" can not travel into the "save world".

So: it is not useless.

You can completely narrow down where something "unsafe" is happening.

No idea what your problem is, did you ever even program anything?

There is no reason at all that program can not be 100% safe. By simply not having the need to use any "unsafe" stuff.

I program mostly in Dart, all my code is 100% safe.

Comment Re:So what? (Score 1) 86

And if I create something from scratch?

P.S. the USA is not the world.

If I creates something, it is my "copyright" - does not matter what tool I used.

Strictly speaking: even a derived work is my copyright. It is just the point that the original author of the original work has to be compensated. But he has no copyright on the new work.

Comment Re: Artificial Intelligence (Score 1) 71

maintaining existing shell scripts is fine, but why generate new ones?
Because they run on linux and on windows and Macs and other Unixes just fine?

The interpreter is preinstalled ... and frankly, I used Python only for "toys" so far, or gluing together some stuff.

So I would need to learn a lot of things ...

I find bash okay for scripting, and there is a "new shell" called Fish, which has a nicer language.

https://fishshell.com/

Comment Re:Rust is FAST. Ruby is slow (Score 1) 71

Java is only a "Hog for RAM" if you write code for that hogging.

Old school Java had not "concurrent garbage collection".

So it literally ran until the memory was used up, and the moment you called "new Object()" the memory allocator said: oops we are out of memory.

As multithreaded clean up is not trivial (at that time, because no one really knew how to do it), the VM stopped all threads, reclaimed unused memory and did the so called "stop the world garbage collection".

In our times, we have concurrent multi threaded - generational - compacting - garbage collection. Which is in general: faster than malloc()/free() in C. At least for most stdc libraries that are coming with a typical compiler distribution.

Then again, in C times we did read text files line by line. Perhaps into a 700byte buffer that could hold two disk sectors or one block from a hard drive.

Now slurp in a whole file. Then call "split(text, '\n')" to get an array of lines: because we have the memory for the whole file, and the memory for all the lines ...

Has nothing to do with Java or with (insert other perceived memory hungry language) - it is a matter how you program.

I can re-write you every C program in Java, and it does not need more RAM than your C version. Of course, it would be "annoying" if you force me to use bytes where you used chars.

And except for the start up time of the JVM, and if it runs long enough the JIT compiling: it will have the same speed as C.

Comment Re:Artificial Intelligence (Score 2, Interesting) 71

LLMs focusing on code generation can generate code in nearly any language.

I for example use them sometimes for the initial "frame" of Dart/Flutter languages.

I worked a while with an unknown LLM (unknown, as it was a research project and the LLMs involved did not disclose their names), that LLM claimed it only needs to see the grammar or examples of a private language I use.

As I never bothered to write a formal grammar for it, I gave it a few thousand lines of code. Then it started asking a few questions, and then it was able to produce code in it.

My language is based on Lox: https://craftinginterpreters.c...

Comment Re:Ah yes (Score 1) 117

Wrong on all accords.

Singapore never was a dictatorship, and has nothing to do with communism.

China was communism, was a dictatorship, but is no longer since roughly 1990.

China has universal health care. No idea if they have private health care to "top up" some things.

China always had universal health care, even since 3000 years ago.

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