https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Ahli_Arab_Hospital_explosio...

Specifically, that is the position of the intelligence agencies of the United States, France, the United Kingdom, and Canada, and also the conclusion of investigations by the Associated Press, CNN, The Economist, The Guardian, and The Wall Street Journal. That's really the best we know about it.

It is true that there were a few incidents, but they only account for a very small fraction of the death toll.

What it does say is

1. Israel must do more to prevent the possibility of genocide. Genocide is killing a people with the intent of killing them for the sake of destroying them, and not as collateral damage, so it does not mean stopping all death. Collateral damage, unfortunately, remains on the table.

2. Israel must report back in a month with how they are doing that. For example, they could show lower amounts of collateral damage, an increase in aid, punishments for officials that make statements that could be construed as genocidal, and so forth.

That is better than nothing, to be certain, but it is far from a ceasefire, unfortunately.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aid-enters-gaza-th...

That should be enough in theory. But see details in the article, there are many logistical challenges remaining to actually get it to those in need.

https://www.w3.org/community/webassembly/

Its true that many of those companies are also members of the Bytecode Alliance. But the W3C community group is where actual specs and standardization happen. That's where votes occur, and that's the Github organization in which they are published, and so forth.

And also eventually it will do something bad, like tell someone depressed to end their lives in very convincing text.

But I agree that friendly competition is a good thing! I feel this article was a little past that, though.

I'm pretty sure that's true for the great majority of software developers, but of course they don't even use a non-GC language!

Part of the reason they don't is that productivity. Not that they chose it personally for that reason, but e.g. historically enterprise code moved to Java and C# for related reasons.

(I also agree there are people that are equally productive in non-GC languages, or even more - different people have different programming styles.)

I interpreted the author's point as "GC is now potentially viable for games", in the sense that older GCs might have pause times larger than 16ms, making them obviously inappropriate, whereas today 1ms pauses is something that can be budgeted for at least in some cases.

As you said, malloc/free also have costs, and also GC has other benefits, like bump allocation, moving things to compact memory and improve cache locality, etc. 1ms pauses means GC is worth considering even for a game, in other words.

But I think it would have been an even better article without the negativity about Go and how the author thinks "the Java guys are winning" in his words. That felt a little petty.

That's because of a huge increase in mouth and throat cancer among men, likely caused by an increase in oral sex.

Boys getting the vaccine can prevent them from getting cancer decades later, basically.

https://www.yang2020.com/policies/nuclear-energy/

but yes, it's a rare position.

Yes, it may find a niche subset of Flash content it can do well, but there have been many attempts at Flash replacements, and all of them have failed, including serious ones with corporate backing like Shumway. Another cool one is Lightspark [1]

The only real chance at 100% preservation of Flash content is for Adobe to open source all of it - the VMs, the runtime including the graphics, etc. - and to compile that.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lightspark

In Rust you can leak due to reference cycles for example: https://doc.rust-lang.org/book/ch15-06-reference-cycles.html

C# will clean up reference cycles, but an unintended reference can cause leaks (if you forget to remove it).

In both languages such leaks are not good, but at least they aren't memory safety issues.