It then gives you a bunch of new problems. First and foremost that you now work in a niche language with fewer packages and fewer people who can maintain the code. Then you get the huge JIT latency. And deployment issues. And lack of static tooling which Rust and Python have.

For me, as a research software engineer writing performance sensitive code, those tradeoffs are worth it. For most people, it probably isn’t. But if you’re the kind of person who cares about the Python optimization ladder, you should look into Julia. It’s how I got hooked.

China is far more serious than the EU about the green transition. Despite being poorer than the poorest EU country they are dominating renewable deployment.

I think that attitude is poorly informed whataboutism.

My own take is that Julia didn’t since the two language problem as much as was defeated by it.

Julia didn’t attract the high-level Python data science crowd because of Julia’s latency issue, lack of package ecosystem, and the inconveniences that a high performance compiled language incurs, such as having parametric containers.

The research software engineer crowds didn’t buy in because Julia has no interfaces or automatically checkable behavior, poor static tooling, imprecise semantics which is hard to build abstraction on, and a complex performance model that makes it hard to ensure speed, and is hard to deploy.

So, where they tried to make a language that can span the gap, they succeeded in making a language that works for neither, and which no-one wants.

I like the language. But after having used it for eight years, I find it increasingly hard to argue against the point that it’s better to choose Rust for software engineering and Python for scripting.

Edit: I should say: I used it for eight years because it IS fine for my specific niche: High performance research software engineering. Where I care neither about the convenience of Python, nor need to write truly robust and maintainable code. Where my choice of language was personal and I didn’t need to convince a team of coworkers.

Isn’t the relationship exactly the same as a company in my country, but another town? I could also gripe that jobs in that other town will not pay my municipality’s taxes.

Some old stuff is now cheap: Grain, oils, clothes, steel, heating, electricity and books, for example.

If the US government forces them to, Microsoft and Google could refuse to serve Office 365, Microsoft cloud storage, Google Drive, Google mail, all online services that we use Google to log in with, Android, so nearly all smart phones, Windows and MacOS. Society would grind to a halt.

If Taiwan loses access to ASML, then Europe loses as much as Taiwan or US does, and the effects could take years to feel

Benchmarks like this can still be fun and informative

I for one am happy to see what the Poles have achieved since independence, and proud to have supported them.

I mean, isn’t this exactly the European project working as intended? A strong market economy, a democracy (if they can keep it so), a strong ally and partner, and a bulwark against Russian aggression. What could you possibly find more worthy to invest in than that?

I mean, since we’re apparently endorsing crime now.

It really undermines the sense of community when vandals deface public spaces and community centers and apartment blocks.

In truth, we know that the election was neither free nor fair, with the government prosecuting and oppressing the opposition.

The Venezuelan opposition made a point of providing evidence that they won, most notably official tally sheets which collaborate that they won. The government did not produce evidence or even care to refute the opposition's claims.