nativecoinc

Programming languages, even so-called general purpose ones, really need to have a general niche. Swift is for application programming while Rust is for systems programming. Which doesn’t mean that they can’t do things in the other niche. But it does mean that they will not be used to such a wide extent that they will be seen as "better" than the other language for that opposite niche.

One illustrative facts is that Rust in practice cares about each individual allocation. Meanwhile Swift has the wonderful value-semantics collection implemented by way of copy-on-write (cow) atomically reference-counted pointers.

What the hell? A slow decline for years is not uncommon at all. At first you know that you are going to forget yourself and be completely helpless, and then you spend years in that state.

My paternal grandmother got dementia and eventually died. My oldest uncle got dementia and eventually died. My father (the middle one) has dementia now. Now my youngest uncle is afraid that he only has a few good years left.

My fortunate paternal grandfather just had a heart-related incident and died quickly at a much younger ager than his wife.

I follow a good lifestyle to the degree that I do only because I want a good quality of life in my middle years and a bit beyond that. I am not interested in subsisting on carrots, cauliflower and exercise bands so that I can become a fit 75 year old with dementia.

Hopefully I’ll be lucky and die in early old age or I’ll get cancer. Dementia can fuck off.