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Yeah, it reads like a person who knows Nietzsche from Reddit comments.

Read a part on the Last Man from initial pages of Zarathustra.

Run server on your PC to serialize and deserialize JSON payloads back and forth just to get basic IDE functionality bro.

> I'd say regular OOP is, after implicit `null`, the biggest mistake in software.

I love this website. It proves that software "industry" is a pop culture after all.

> Doesn't change the fact that the people is the government

That completely ignores realities of society, power and influence, even in democratic societies.

Nothing bold in it, as there is no more meaning in the AGI.

We already lived through multiple AGIs for the last few years.

For complex enough and long-running application your run-of-the-mill Rust (so probably what AI would generate) will likely be slower than your run-of-the-mill Java.

I know this is a heresy in some online religious groups pretending to care about engineering but that's reality.

I don't read to get personalized experience. I want to experience what other person has prepared for me.

I would need to see an example. Every text by AI I saw was always overly verbose, and very mediocre in regard to figurative elements. Yes, often it is not worse than you average thing you can read on the Internet, but this is the point, right?

I work for the company that sells HVAC and ref systems.

For last few years everyone talks about moving away from selling products towards selling cooling services, and connecting everything to the internet.

Of course, there are good premises - predictive maintenance, automation etc. But this won't make disasters that await us any smaller.

> Who is being myopic and arrogant?

People who use these things to some success, and then paint the trajectory of next 10 yrs and face every scepticism with "you are holding it wrong".

Yet most contributions to biggest FOSS projects like Linux, LLVM etc come from US corpos and institutions. Non-US actors may leverage them, but control over those projects is in hand of US actors, even if letters describing the license doesn't state that, because power in real world doesn't reside in license files or even commit stats.

Yes, in theory Europe (let's ignore there is no such political entity as Europe, but people pretend there is) could hard-fork them and maintain it, but in practice it won't happen, because if it could, it would already.

I wouldn't call them experimental. They just suck IMO, and that's my biggest gripe with using Julia, as language alone is nice, especially with slowly improving AOT. Of course you will also get replies with completely opposing views, so there is no other way than trying it yourself.

> Any open source software should be considered "international"

This so naive only a programmer could say this.

It did, it is snowflakes like you who decided to never mature.

Why nerds are almost always so sociologically and politically blind?

Expression of tech-faith is not intellectually honest argument.

Where does this "will probably not hold in the very near future" come from? People correctly warn about extrapolating current things onto the future, but then just throw some vague "probabilities" without providing any argument why their "probably" is somehow more grounded than others.

Doesn't really explain anything, as most cool-looking things.

To me most representatives of EA resemble people that read about goodness in the book, formulated some notion of it solely through that reading, and then designed an approach to bring it to life. Purely intellectual, not something experienced and lived through, what is the case for the normal people. Very uncanny, like psychopaths learning about empathy from the lecture, and then deciding they would become empathetic based on the notes they took.

Their morality is like musicality of someone that learned how to read sheet music and learned how every note sounds like or even how whole chords sound like, but never heard any music being played. Music is not about computing harmonic formula, and goodness is not about solving utility equation.

‘We have discovered happiness,’ say the Last Men, and they blink.

> does anyone really give a shit what consenting adults do in their private lives?

Yes, we do this in 2026 as we did for millenia. That's called society. Glad to help you.

The issue with this stance is that rationality shouldn't be reduced to "logic" and efficiency. When it is, then bad things happen.

Another issue with EA is that it is yet another trendy thing among nerds and techbros that was iterated hundreds of times in philosophy under general debate on consequencialism/utilitarism. Of course nerds and techbros think of themselves as smarter than everyone else, so they don't bother engaging with that debate in honest manner.

No, it is not based on data. Like 99% of "tech wisdom" discussed on HN.

The fact that your comment is downvoted and the parent is not tells everything I need to know about "people" attending this website.

First, I like reading your comments, as they are pretty illuminating, also in the way they expose how superstitious programmers can be.

Second, I wonder where, roughly, would you put a transition from small programs where low-level langs are fine, to programs large enough to heavily benefit from JVM tradeoffs? And how this transition is affected by a stuff like Graal Native?

But this is not a good analogy. Rust is being talked about explicitly as "better C++", with a huge and vocal group of online people going around and saying that the world will end if we don't rewrite everything in Rust, or that no new C++ project should be started today with Rust being available.

Very few people, if any, put R against Fortran in this way, so the fact that Fortran libraries weren't rewritten in R doesn't contradict anyone's expectations.

> All I ever wanted from Julia was great a development experience, but it appears to have never quite gotten there.

I feel you. After AOT support (it is improving; slowly, but still) my biggest gripe with Julia is tooling/dev experience. VSCode extension performance is abysmal. Debugging support is delegated to some external package and this debugger has to ship with its own interpreter, and download additional packages. Like, why the hell I need to download few packages just to have a debugger?

I keep track of what is going on and play with it sometimes, but to me Julia will remain a curiosity, even though the language itself is actually fun, with many good ideas (and some bad ones). Also, "two language problem" is not a problem for me.

> They weren’t trying to solve aging or bring everyone to the highest standard of living

The latter is a matter of policy and AI is not needed for that.

I hate this framing. Nickname checks out.

> do some real research

It is funny that only real research on productivity gains from AI shows at best very minimal gains, but AI bros will always tell you "no no no, you have used wrong model, try a different one, there are more of them, you have to try, trust me" and call that a "research".

OOP, like most stuff discussed in dev-related web, exists so that permaonline people can have another reason to create their own tribes and fight each other.

> For my doorbell I wanted something that lets me play a custom bell sound

But... why?