Whelp - the lawyers never hard of leaching.

An objective position based on a neutral observation.

There's an extremely narrow IQ range required to find your "joke" funny - maybe somewhere between 90 and 115.

Not a high bar...

They really humiliated all the traditional supercar brands out there.

Uh, what?

And God said "Use your own words, faggot!"

In the 30's, Berlin was the center of art and culture in Europe and the trains ran on time.

So no, it doesn't.

Suspect.

Sure, go far back enough (and yes, I was on computers at that time) but surely he's not saying, "Man, computers were better when you could only run one process at a time, and the operating system let you do literally anything" etc etc and if so, the answer to that is, you can still do that if you want .. you just can't do it *inside* somebody else's software architecture. You still own the hardware, do whatever you want.

huh? it's trivial to write any code you want and run it on your phone

But with respect to your "dawn of the PC era", unless you wrote the operating system, you couldn't write and run code that could do anything and everything your computer was capable of - only code that could do what the operating system would permit you to do.

That's no different today.

Epic management chose to sell out to incumbents rather than remain flexible - and relevant.

Here's a little sticker for knowing what Firefox is tho. You must be good at computers.

There have been numerous articles about it recently. You have the internet. No need to stop the class just because you're the only lazy ignoramus around here.

you're an old and bitter man, and you've only yourself to blame

and I'm old too and a loooong time c++ professional dev (and still am) and somehow the idea of change or the word 'Rust' doesn't make me shit my pants

I feel bad for you