Depends on what you define as "applications". I agree that for GUI type stuff it's not very suitable (however Zed is superb and that's a GIU application).

For back end development (API's and suchlike) its absolutely bloody superb. What it definitively isn't, is a scripting language.

What makes me laugh is the assumption that US military spending will reduce if it withdraws from NATO.

I feel in my bones (not put any effort into a design however) that there ought to be a block chain/trust solution somewhere out there to this problem.

I switched to self hosted Forgejo some time ago, haven't looked back since. Just need to make sure it's well backed up (which mine is!). Ii really hate being beholden to these mega corps!

All the bleating about the price of selling the electricity is much higher than the value of the fuel ignores the truth that renewable electricity frequently has excess production - some grids are paying suppliers to not supply. I.e. if you can get paid to absorb excess electricity reactive to the dynamic market price, you can make money both ways - paid to absorb excess electricity and sell the fuel.

Deep seek demonstrated that and shocked the entire US Machine Learning community. 'merica is in the process of falling off its pedestal and it's fascinating to watch.

Except that it seems the supreme court is captured by Trump/Maga to an extent that they will nod this and any other outrage straight through. Brain dead.

Many Python libraries I have used (the "serious" ones at least) are wrappers to C implementations or even Fortran ! (I do a lot of numerical analysis). Those same libraries are also available wrapped in Rust and I am sure many other languages, so the argument that people choose python for its libraries, at least for my workload is not logical. In my opinion people choose Python because that's what they learned at university.

My subjective experience from a fairly long sample timescale (I'm pretty old) is that 80% of people are either dumb, or don't use their brains and are therefore effectively wrong 80% of the time.

Thinking is actually hard work!

I really don't understand how touch can help me, typing zsh/bash commands in touch sounds really inefficient.

I worked at IBM from 1988 until 1998 and you're correct about Gerstner, he did say no vision required.. however that was a temporary position whilst he took time to understand the business. He actually instituted the biggest revolution in IBM with the bet the company vision on e-business and internet, As regards toxicity, IBM was pretty much the best place I worked with regards to culture for the entire period I was there.

This principle you mention reminds me of when I worked for a startup in 2000. We were trying to recruit a sales director and after several failures it became clear that sales people were always best at selling themselves above all else. That did not translate into sales of the product !

I'm trying to wean myself off it, honestly !

Naive at best. Anyone with experience of these matters knows there is no such thing as a fixed price.

people still use python?