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Well America has a difficult problem to solve. And that is its workforce is insanely expensive. Or lets say the rest of the world is insanely poor compared to the americans.

We often joked here in Eastern Europe that we would be better off leaving our current IT jobs and just go to the US to work at McDonalds.

What is the type of apps that one should use D for ? I think this is one of the main issues with languages that did not gain traction and that is they are too generic and try to be too many things to too many people.

If i exclude the financial backing i think languages that tried to tackle one specific thing did rather well. Rust came to be to address the issue with security and there is not really an alternative. Yes people use it for cli tools or backend services but that’s just because they are riding the hype train.

The same with Go.

On the other hand we have things like Dart which did not really try to solve an issue people felt they have. The same with Crystal. Nobody really needed faster Ruby that much and if they did they already needed a production ready solution which was just too hard to deliver.

A language like Nim reminds me of D. Its author is also a brilliant Phd CS person but I feel like he does not really have a problem to solve. It’s all just an intellectual challenge. Companies like Status.im ( backer of Nim ) have a problem that they are trying to solve by using Nim. Making the right and the perfect solutions is hard but this evolutionary approach is really harming the expansion of the ecosystem. Nim has just too many features and too many approaches to memory management (recent gc:arc release). But it is all too half baked and does not support the features Nim advertises that it has.

This is basically the same issue i have with D. I have no idea what I would use D for. And could i rely on D in the domain i pick it for ? Eg the same field where Go excels.

Except the salaries in Europe, nowhere in Europe can even come close to such a staggering difference like those in SF or NYC.

There just is not that kind of money in circulation for SWE.

I even doubt one can get $130k in London.SWEs in London are not competing with other SWEs. They are competing with bankers and similar.

We need the US to step in for Eastern Europe. We need a reliable partner that is at least very direct and honest about its interests unlike Germany that is all about german interests while preaching european unity and values. Seriously Germany has been destroying my part of Europe for way too long! No more!

I would rather deal with the american way of life than being forced to live the german way.

I dont think Google dominates South Korea yet but that might be because users habits are hard to change.

Ofc it is on purpose. This guy goes by name Frank Lucas.

People are not producing superior products for free out of their good will. And these are often not so superior either. It is a simple balancing game of a good enough tool vs a good enough vendor lock-in.

Donations do not work and developers should not be forced to beg. FOSS is a broken model for all of us. At the end of the day you are feeding the behemoths one way or another.

Free software was once necessary to balance out the astronomical costs of enterprise software. But this is not the case anymore.

Free software is in this day and age not sustainable and using it it without contributing a dime is parasitic and detrimental to the health of the sw industry.

A lot of so called “free” software is alive and kicking strong because it is funded by mega corporations doing it to kill the smaller competition.

In a sense using VS Code or VS Codium is just as bad as relying on an obscure SAP module. We should all support small and medium sized SMEs like the creators of Sublime Text.

Finland is no paradise nor is the US of A. No country is. There are some cons and pros to every country. Finland is a sleepy country where nothing much happens. Yes you have a universal healthcare but so is this healthcare expensive compared to some other "capitalist heavens" like Singapore or South Korea.

Also there is no "cheap" in Nordic countries. Everything has a certain minimum level of quality set for everyone which makes things needlessly more expensive.

If you crave cheap junk food you are out of luck. Eating or drinking out is so expensive that people just stay at home and cook. That does not sound like freedom but a society engineered by the elite to do what they think is the best for that society.

Not every city out there has a subway system or competent people in charge of public transportation.

I am honestly not surprised. In my country the current government came up with the idea to slam an additional tax on banks because they "think they earn too much" and they need to share with the society.

It's because the city can grow only so much. You are not buying the right to freeze the neighborhood in time. You are not buying the right to forbid everyone else from building up and altering the face of the neighborhood.

I am sorry but the price you paid for your house / apt was too little to justify this behavior.

The only country able to stand up to China is the US. Without the US not trying enough we are all doomed...

I dont want my country to become once again a russian satellite. China is too far away but will feed Russia to influence my part of the world.

Seriously muricans get your shit together.

As an eastern european i feel the same just from the opposite perspective. Western European push for values that fundamentally cannot work in my country.

Are there any specific reasons why americans go NIMBY ? In my country it's mainly due to lack of infrastructure (no subway, very narrow roads, no bus lanes etc).

American tech imperialism in the real world. Apple thinks the US has the moral authority to ban the vaping apps...except maybe the rest of the world disagrees.

A lot is said about Estonia but Lithuania is better positioned and grows faster than Estonia.

It's interesting but to me Estonia cant quite compete with its neighbors to the point of becoming wealthier than they are now.

Yet koreans pay just a half of what europeans pay for a much better healthcare than europeans.

Oh the wonders of different systems and economies.

These places are called Hong Kong, Singapore, Ireland, Switzerland and others.

Healthcare in Europe IS NOT SIGNIFICANTLY cheaper. It is just someone else footing the bill for you.

The Netherlands expenditure per capita is also quite high. I cant believe how high it is actually in Western European countries. If you compare it to South Korea or Singapore the Netherlands looks just as expensive as the US of A, just on a different scale.

They did not build alternatives for people. They social engineered people to do what they wanted them to do. They slapped ridiculous taxes on cars and forced people to seek other means of transportation.

Then they made it difficult and unaffordable to park in the city and built those extensive bike lanes.

To me as someone who grew up in a communist country reeks of communism.

Dont take me wrong I am not saying cars are necessary but having a car to me equals having the freedom of choice.

Now I live in Seoul and I usually commute by taking the subway but If I need to go to a district that is not in the vicinity of the extensive subway network in Seoul I take the car. It's fast and reliable.

Is Sublime Text a native app or a web page?

Why not try mainland then ? Shenzhen or Guangzhou.

Extreme real estate prices?

Is this why everyone and their mom switched from Kakao to Telegram during the Sewol crisis and PGH incident did not really help either.

SK is a well managed country but dont equate obedience or ignorance with trust.

Also koreans are simply ignorant about things like individualism and too much interference from the ones in power.

The main idea of Songdo was decentralization. It wanted to push businesses and people to live outside of Seoul. Meanwhile no one is leaving Seoul for Songdo and all the people living in Songdo commute to Seoul.

They way i understood your comment is that the german car makers will fail because of inherited wealth. I am saying all of them can fail due to cultural differences. It just happens that the american can do attitude works the best and is global or tries to be global.

That could be said about anything really. The Chinese companies will inevitably fail because they will never venture outside of china in any meaningful way that would be sustainable for them.

The Zaibatsus will fail because of aging population and traditionalism. The Chaebols will fail because of archaic hierarchy of the korean society.

The EV is the new iphone and everyone is struggling to create the next android.