Highly agree with this. I'm almost done moving an app off it into React (web, not native) because the SDK upgrades kept including unlisted breaking changes to the point I can't upgrade anymore. Biggest culprit was Reanimated.

> The starting sequence of a web socket is an HTTP request header to an upgrade the connection. Correctly configured DPI firewalls block these upgrade headers so for all you know the connection has been made but the renderer fails silently.

Slack and many other applications use WebSockets. IIRC there were proxy issues with WebSocket when it was new but that was 15 years ago. Also you will absolutely be able to detect the connection not succeeding.

Yes? It's still possible to make it safe if you ensure that all programs are written in a memory safe language. Aside from throwing out a ton of existing code it's not as bad as it sounds. The Birth and Death of JavaScript touches on it towards the end.

https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/talks/the-birth-and-death...

Children are either not allowed to have devices, or they have them but locked down with parental controls (hopefully).

Apple could easily have a separate mode for this. Maybe there's some overlap with lockdown mode where it can be bundled together. There is no reason to force it on everyone except to benefit Apple.

Not relevant. Most people don't choose their phone/platform based on how much freedom it gives you. An iPhone is a very good phone overall but the restrictions are unfortunately bundled in.

You're obviously fine with it but it is only going to get worse in the future. The whole Android developer verification thing is a step in the same direction from Google's side. Eventually macOS will be locked down or even phased out - most young people just do everything on their phone now so why not? I don't want to accept that future so I'm not supporting platforms that restrict it.

You've missed my point even though it's right in front of you. You won't get in trouble for using your Apple device in non-approved ways because it doesn't let you. Would you ban cars for everyone because it's not safe for grandma to drive anymore? Probably not - so why lock down devices for everyone?

> Do we not take steps to try and reduce murder?

Not directly? Gun/knife control probably helps but people willing to risk the consequences of murder are not going to care about breaking more laws to get illegal weapons. Or just use a weapon that's easy to get.

Social engineering is the weakest link even if your grandma is doing all her banking on Windows XP.

By similar I meant from the compiler's point of view. `try...finally` is the low level primitive to ensure some code runs at exit. If something throws an exception then destructors must run when unwinding the stack, which is what `finally` is for! But if you disable exceptions then `try` blocks are probably all basically no-ops.

RAII doesn't really fit into every language because they don't all have deterministic destructors/finalizers and objects with scoped lifetimes. Sometimes you only have one but not the other and you definitely need both.

I wouldn't want to work somewhere like that. Trying to pretend that people don't swear is just dumb. It's not even offensive.