C would be hugely benefited by adding a set of list functions and a hash table to the standard library.

The advantage of Java (and c#) is that it can be used by large teams without messing things up too badly. A large project written in Javascript ends up with almost intractable type errors (which is why Typescript has become more popular), and a large program written in Python has almost intractable type errors and maddening versioning issues.

With a large team, C++ will inevitably have someone incompetent adding a bunch of memory errors (or adding friend classes or something; overwriting an operator with weird side effects that no one expected). With Java, that doesn't happen.

That's why an engineer would choose the language. Look at all the benefits and drawbacks, choose what works best.

In the real world, people choose what they know. They don't look at anything else.

Python is the top language solely because it is used to teach beginners, and those beginners never move on.

The advantage of using Python to teach beginners is its simplicity: you don't have to know object oriented programming, or structured programming, to start out.

People choose Python because it's what they know, not because they've looked around to see what they like. Similarly people choose C# because if you want to program on Windows, that's the language.

That's the question, right? How can we use AI to make humans more productive?

So far the only thing I've found is a better search engine, which does in fact make me more productive.

Because it was work done remotely.

It would be interesting to build a solid test framework for a rather largish project and ask the generative to work until it can produce a program that passes the tests. I hypothesize it will not ever finish.

In fact, some largish test suites already exist, such as for compilers.

What moderate PLA are you talking about?

Here it is: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Surely it's Wonder Woman's invisible plane.

Kids are generally lame. They don't have money. They haven't figured out how to live. They can't even spell properly.

If your target audience is kids, then you can find a way to manipulate them and make money (maybe tell them they are better than adults because of their screen orientation).

If they are found guilty, the most likely scenario is they will pay a lot of money and move on.

The minivan form factor is safer than the SUV form factor.

If people primarily cared about safety, there are a LOT of things they would change before switching to SUV.

An SUV is not safer in an accident. If people cared about safety, they would look up the safety records of the cars.

If people wanted safety, they would buy a car in the form factor more like a minivan than an SUV.

An SUV is not a car to buy for safety, or for sports, or for utility.

Fortunately they say they'll have a product for sale in the next few months, so it's not even worth spending effort being skeptical. Just wait a few months and we'll know either way.