Is the COBOL committee still working under the assumption that it currently is and will always be the dominant language?

Put another way: what what do you like about uxntal in particular compared to the the other languages in the same family of concatenative languages?

What a weird false dichotomy. A planet with well over 7 Billion people can do at least two things at once.

You are correct in general, but one cannot do two things at once when the first thing is (at least, arguably) a necessary prerequisite to the second thing.

The other thing he [emphasis mine] got wrong is “prompt complexity/coaxing”.

She, actually.

Yes, it is the scripting language of TempleOS.

I think you mean: it is one of the most brain dead comments you have ever hurd about Linux.

In fairness, the cost of selling their souls to the Dark Lord Sauron also does not show up in this graphic.

Cent O-S is com-ING, to TOWN!!!

That might have been an apt name at first, but the UX has come along way since the early days.

As someone who regularly has to deal with code that has been broken needlessly into smaller functions so that I have to constantly jump around to figure out what is going on, this really resonates with me.

The latest case was someone who took something that really only needed to be a single function and instead turned it into a class with a dozen tiny methods.

And thank god for that!

They’re basically like the elves in Tolkien’s world: they’re the elder race that is wise in a lot of ways, but also have a lot of flaws.

Yes, exactly, which as we all know stands for GIF Image Format.

So what would you name the category that includes Alpine Linux and Chimera Linux, as was brought up in the article?

It would have helped a lot if GNU weren’t such a weird acronym whose pronunciation is not at all obvious.

I guarantee this will have a comment 😄

You do know that, when you edit your comment to pretend that you had predicted something in advance, that there is a timestamp showing when you made the change, right?

Thank you for introducing needed some levity into the discussion. 😉

Those are all good points.

We’ve played this game with browser engines and we find ourselves in a world with no viable community-controlled browser.

Where would you say Firefox fits into this? (This question is not a gotchya; I am genuinely having trouble seeing whether it is a valid counter-example or not.)

It’s interesting that there are comments that say things like:

The cult [emphasis mine] of Rust developers just won’t give up.

We like the Rust, we hate the cuck [emphasis mine] license. Simple.

Going from GPL to a weaker license was a terrible idea and whoever supported it should be held accountable. [emphasis mine]

Whoever is suggesting and perpetuating MIT over GPL needs to be tarred and feathered [emphasis mine].

And yet you have decided that it is my comments calling this out as being the trollish ones, as if I were the one being unreasonable.