There are people still using VMWare?!?!? And their main issue is COST, rather than the fact that VMWare is like a thousand years old?

> 2. Democratic voters tend to be more concerned about the environment.

This is technically true but is counterbalanced by the fact rural areas tend to be extremely NIMBY. Unbelievably so. It's hard to get permission to rebuild a dilapidated strip mall, let alone build a data center.

There's a railroad near where I live that was freight only, but wanted to run passenger trains - completely unsubsidized (beyond a tax free loan, and I've never bought the argument "tax free" means subsidized, but that's for another day) - on the same lines. Virtually nothing changed. No impact on the local community. Two trains an hour tying up railroad crossings for a maximum of 20-30 seconds, a minute an hour.

Every fucking "community" North of the Miami-West Palm Beach-Jupiter metropolis raised objections. This was for an existing railroad, with zero impact beyond long sought after safety improvements and quiet zones!

You think rural areas are going to support building actual buildings?

Pffft.

Indeed, I wonder if it'd be easier, even if as you point out more expensive, to build a data center in a city. Just renovate an existing industrial building and hope nobody sees the planning notices.

You don't know him and don't know he's a sociopath.

However, the people who do know him say he's a sociopath, so they probably know.

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No worse than virtually all other scripting languages! I'd be hard pressed to find a scripting language that's significantly better than JS when it comes to type handling.

Unpopular view: Javascript itself is a decent language, it's the fact it has to be used with the DOM in most contexts that makes it unpleasant. Give it a set of Python/PHP/Java/etc style desktop libraries and most people would have no problem with it. But because everyone encounters it within the context of a web browser as a scripting language for web pages, it gets a bad rap.

That said, I recall the original Eich JS being kinda sucky, with little or no OOPs beyond associative arrays. So there's that.

The biggest issue here is that the bigots managed to rewrite history, and managed to persuade most people that Mozilla "fired" Eich for his opinions, when in fact Mozilla ignored his blatant bigotry when it happened, and considered him worthy of promoting to CEO despite effectively calling 10% of the (blameless) people he'd lead a danger to children, co-funding a political campaign that was promoting that blood libel.

They say Mozilla fired him. Mozilla did no such thing. Mozilla promoted him to CEO. They saw blood libels against gay people as no barrier to leading a massive team of people.

The rest of the world voiced their disgust, Mozilla started to lose users at an alarming rate within days of the announcement, and Eich saw he had to go, so he quit, despite Mozilla's backing.

Mozilla isn't "woke", they're the exact opposite. That's why they've embraced fashtech so enthusiastically despite it being such a danger to the open web. They're gross. The only reason to use Firefox is literally that the alternative is fashtech and at least Firefox is second hand fashtech.

But whenever this troll posts, can we PLEASE set the story straight because I'm so fed up with seeing this bullshit that Eich was fired, when he was actually promoted to CEO. And resigned because of world wide disgust, not because of a single Mozilla employee expressing concern.

Depends. If they're afraid of heights they probably shouldn't have a job cleaning the windows of skyscrapers. And if they promote the lie that gays are a danger to children, they probably shouldn't be leading any organization sufficiently large enough that 5-10% of their employees are likely gay.

Regardless, Eich wasn't fired by Mozilla, he was promoted to CEO. Mozilla explicitly endorsed his views. It was the rest of the world that voiced their disgust, and Eich resigned after it became clear more than 5-10% of humanity was going to have nothing to do with Mozilla if he continued in that position.

Mozilla should be ashamed of itself, for its blessing of homophobia and endorsement of a blood libel, not for something it never did.

He wasn't fired, he was promoted, to CEO.

Unbelievable this lie continues to be spread that he was fired from Mozilla. The reality is he quit after it became obvious that nobody saw promoting someone to CEO who co-funded a campaign saying gays were a danger to children as a sign Mozilla was for "everyone". But nobody at Mozilla pushed him out, the rest of the world voiced their disgust. Something they had every right to do.

Because he was an awful person. And certainly unqualified to lead a diverse open source business.

If they're the copyright holder, they can, legally, do whatever they want. And closing the Github repo isn't against any OSS license I'm aware of: they may, depending on whether they've accepted contributions without copyright assignment, be required to provide the source code to those who have obtained binaries from them directly, but that's about the extent of it. I don't know if their Github had binary releases, but assuming it didn't, nobody really has a legal case against them.

The best that can happen is what the article is talking about: people fork the last known good version.

FORTRAN? TIL.

The old joke was that Python was basically COBOL++, but thinking about it it did actually end up replacing FORTRAN the same way Java and C# replaced COBOL.

Regardless, Python was a decent language. It has quirks I'm not overly happy about, but there's no denying it was a useful addition to programming, as is Rust, and as was Java and C# and a host of other popular languages. And while there are some communities I might avoid, the fact that people's advocacy gets tiring after a while isn't an excuse to boycott a technology, especially as you can safely assume that the better something is, the more likely it'll have its advocates.

Though never did understand the love for Arch Linux...

Yeah. I get the impression there are a hell of a lot of people who just make up reasons to hate Rust because of some perceived (rightly or wrongly) annoying habits of those who advocate it.

Which is ironic because Python zealots literally had the same reputation as Rust advocates today 20-25 years ago.

Rust is theoretically a massive step forward if we use it properly. People spend far too much time getting tribal because of whether they want to be associated with advocates or critics rather than the tech underneath.

Let me be perfectly clear about this: I am insulting you. I am calling you out as either being such a plonk that you keep old copies of People magazine around just in case ... or you are such a plonk that you google and select the answer you want.

Either way, you are a plonk. Your memory is reliable and truthful, mine is full of lies.

Yah, right, like I keep sources of everything I remember from 30 years ago. Uh huh. You of course, being perfect, do keep such sources, instead of just googling and reporting the results which confirm your own bias.

I mean the software is impressive and all, but since when is someone with a user ID in the 400,000s a long-time reader?

"I forget what they call it"

Lots of inventions were unasked-for until they were invented.