Have you thought about why Switch is the best selling console in the current generation even though it’s by far the weakest in performance?

I don’t know iMessage, but some of the more advanced features in WhatsApp/Messenger are great. I use shared location almost daily, voice messages are great too.

Does anyone know what level of interoperability is required? Like basic text, pictures, emoji… or every feature including things like location sharing?

Python is for some reason darling of many, sometimes it has almost religious connotations. Meanwhile differences from e.g. PHP are mostly superficial and each has their strengths and weaknesses.

Bourne shell is orders of magnitude worse clusterf*ck than JavaScript, yet it’s rarely criticized.

Rust rarely gets criticized which isn’t necessarily a problem, since it’s IMHO a good language for its intended use case. But people tend to recommend it for things where the trade offs come out negative. (apps not needing max. performance)

In general I wouldn’t follow the trends on social media, it’s all a huge groupthink, mostly focusing on (easily avoidable) warts, and ignoring strengths.

Impossible in the timeframe. There’s a reason why ASML is the only producer on this level.

Swallowing your pride, merging into another project and taking a less glamorous role in that project is not as easy as it was to fork when steering your project.

I don’t think it’s because of the ego. But if you’re working with other people, you need to do a lot of non-coding (non-fun) things. Align thinking, find compromises, establish and follow processes. Things are easier and more fun hacking alone. No processes to limit you, no one telling you “this doesn’t align with the vision of the project” (and the other way round - you don’t have to maintain code contributed by other people with use cases not interesting to you) etc. For volunteer FOSS contributors, doing fun stuff is often a big part of the motivation to give their free time to the community.

I agree. Rust has advantages, but none of them outweighs the negatives (complexity, difficult to find devs) for this particular use case.

I also agree that JVM would be a good platform. It’s both performant enough and simple/conventional enough.

has documentation which says it is meant only to be used for logging / debugging

No, it’s not a breaking change IMO. The method contract (the “debug” name, the comment) heavily implies the output may change and should not be relied upon.

I’m curious where did they get those numbers. Producing a limited number of chips is one thing, scaling production to tens of millions is another. Especially regarding the lithography machines which China bought before the sanctions from ASML, but can’t buy anymore.

QA of course contributes to the defects and features.

78 people contributed in the form of code commits, but more people likely contributed to the release in other ways (QA, triage, release management etc.)

But there were more contributors, you just don’t know how many. By this you’re kind of disregarding their work.

The obvious choice would’ve been to not use it and state the numbers plainly.

How would you write it?

Fingers crossed!

The author of the blogpost is a developer, not a professional writer. Honestly I don’t understand why you’re so upset about it.

Maybe there were 78 committers. But other people contributed to the release in some other way (QA?), but that may be more difficult to count than just looking at the commit stats …

It’s just so symptomatic of the whole Putin kleptocracy regime. Preferring loyalty to competence, political points and international prestige to scientific results. You see the same pattern in many places, the army, industry etc.

I have a small app on the play store. It’s finished, has a small user base and doesn’t really need updates.

But I’ll now let google delist it. The API level isn’t even the main reason, it’s the other X warnings which jumped at me when logging into developer console about new rules and guidelines I need to satisfy. I’ve had enough of the hamster wheel.

It is what it is. Roscosmos has been dysfunctional for decades. Science mixed with politics, low budget, high political pressure, low quality testing … all resulting in this. It’s just rotten.

There was a lot of development in those almost 50 years. I guess the instruments are better, the drilling equipment better…

IIRC Luna 24 found some traces of water, and poles are often prime suspects to find water in higher quantities …