Kitty and wez both have the ability to present graphics on the terminal which may sound like a solution in search of a problem, but once you start using the capability, it's hard to live without it.
Wez is also cross platform so I get to use it on my Linux and Mac and my (Ugh) Windows work machine. Configuration being done in Lua is also something I quite like, but your mileage may vary on that one.
This is kinda mind-blowing when combined with yazi[0] for example. You can browse a directory with images or videos on your terminal and see previews of both.
It seemed to me that you were attributing the lower life expectancy due to US' diversity compared to many wealthy nations. My point was: Canada is similarly diverse and yet its life expectancy is higher.
No, I was saying the diversity of American society means that aggregate measures won't tell us much. If Canada is similarly diverse (that seems contested, but accepting it for argument's sake) then aggregate measures there also won't tell us much.
If Fossil let me rebase, I'd never use git for personal projects again. I love the whole all-in-one approach and it's all so functional. But the (almost extreme) hostility to a rebase workflow makes it a no go for me, and I'm sure many others.
Canadian here, currently absolutely in shock of what's happening down south (and your president is constantly threatening to bring us in on this circus against our will -- if someone told me this would be happening a few short months ago, I would have laughed).
But honest question, since his approval rating is positive (!!!), I thought your whole founding ethos was a rebellion against complete powers of a king, yet a lot of your "freedom" people are cheering it on. How can this be explained? Is the cognitive dissonance just so massive??? Here in Canada, we HAVE a king, yet he doesn't rule us...
American here. Lived all over the country from small towns to now the largest city, lived in other countries, traveled extensively, served in the military, first in my entire extended family to graduate from college, was highly religious and conservative, now agnostic. I say all this to say that I've seen America from many different angles.
Here's my opinion: there's a rot at the very core of America, and as a result, many of us are extremely ignorant, petty, and cruel. Trying to discuss any of these issues with probably 40% of the country is utterly useless, because they've never traveled, they have no perspective on how other countries (or even other parts of this country) actually work, they have no education or sense of history to speak of, and their only source of info is blatant propaganda. They don't care what works, they have no vision for the world they want to build, they just don't want the other side to "win", even when that would be better for them. If we have to burn everything down to make sure the other side doesn't get the world they want, so be it. And they're proud of all of this.
When do kings get rebelled against? Typically when they stop listening and caring for their people. So maybe it's not rebelling against a king, I think it's rebelling against old ossified system that didn't and couldn't change anything for the better. Now a new system of ruling is finally doing something at least. A breath of fresh air for a stagnating fire. But sometimes adding fresh air to a stagnating fire will result in explosion.
PHP never did do a py2->3, but instead took the js route of adding things while being very cautious indeed if breaking compatibility.
I really have very little annoyance with PHP despite retaining some WTFs. In fact, with a modern language server and psalm I find it downright comfortable.
> For a "dead" language, PHP sure seems to have a lot of life left in it!
I honestly have not met, in real life, anyone that has thought PHP is dead. People that hated PHP? Oh yeah, I've met plenty of such people, often from using it in anger in pre-7+ days. And, (to be fair) for a language nerd, even new PHP is not exactly an exciting language. It's productive, but so very far from glamorous.
But dead? How can it be? Wordpress is an absolute behemoth. Laravel is large. Symphony finds plenty of use in the biggishOrg space. Even Drupal is not dead. Who in their right mind could think it's dead?
*Some people. I despised older versions from my time dealing with it (during the upgrade from PHP2 to 3), and I never wrote non-trivial amounts of JS until the last year or so. PHP has a broad base of anti-support.
BTW, my loathing of earlier versions don't carry through to now. I haven't had to look at it in a couple decades and maybe it's better now. I was strongly in the hater camp, based on my own personal experiences with it, around the time JS was starting to become a thing.
It's also true that this forum and the startup ecosystem in general doesn't represent the reality of global software development. Saying "PHP is dead" is accurate if your entire world is silicon valley.
"PHP is dead" in the sense that your startup is likely dead if you tell potential investors that you use PHP. Outside the startup world incentives are a bit different
That was kind of my take on this article as well. We're comparing libraries with lots of breaking-API churn vs. libraries that don't do as much, in another language.
When it comes to React itself, only breaking changes I ever experienced were 17->18 and that was such a simple fix it's not worth talking about.
Please--do tell more re: China. I hear a lot of parroting of negative talking point about China here in Canada, I see a lot of crazy footage from China that looks like the future, but I'd love to know more about your actual experience.
I was just in Shenzhen last month. It feels like a city that is 10 years ahead of any place in the US. The city felt extremely futuristic. Most cars on the road are EVs. Payments are all digital. Ordering at restaurants is on your phone. The entire city is extremely clean, civilized, efficient, safe which you can't say about any major US city. Hop on a high speed train at any time and go to anywhere in China within a few hours.
China basically feels like a bigger Singapore except people in China are generally friendlier and more down to earth.
When you're actually in China, the constant negative stories about China in your head will go away. What you'll see is just like any other place: people working hard, minding their own business, and generally friendly people.
"I was just in Shenzhen last month. It feels like a city that is 10 years ahead of any place in the US. The city felt extremely futuristic. Most cars on the road are EVs. Payments are all digital. Ordering at restaurants is on your phone. The entire city is extremely clean, civilized, efficient, safe which you can't say about any major US city. Hop on a high speed train at any time and go to anywhere in China within a few hours."
It's easy to make changes quickly when the people making the change don't really have a choice. I've heard the murder rate in North Korea is almost 0 and the crime is very low compared to most other countries. The devil is in the details.
"When you're actually in China, the constant negative stories about China in your head will go away. What you'll see is just like any other place: people working hard, minding their own business, and generally friendly people."
There was never any doubt that the people are nice and friendly in China. The issue is the authoritarian government. As an example, do some research on how the Chinese government treats people from the LGBT community and get back to me.
I can co-sign all of that, but the cleanliness and order comes at a terrible dystopian price. There is no counterculture, little underground, and everyone with resources who can leave, does.
China is a terrible place, the ultimate star wars crab bucket dystopian future. It’s shiny and pretty and has cool LEDs and malls.
Any place can be decades ahead if you simply outlaw the old ways of life. Authoritarianism is a terrible cancer.
I had the pleasure of seeing one in Mexico recently. If this car is garbage, sign me up! But alas, it's impossible because we decided that since we can't compete we'll just make them essentially illegal.
I always hear this as a criticism of China but then I watch some footage of the actual place and it looks like it lives in the future (to be fair, it's uneven, but let me tell you I've traveled to the US enough times to be shocked at how uneven it can get). Sure, there's real problems I'm sure, where isn't there, but here in Canada by the time we've built a kilometer of an LRT line massively over budget, China has added a new high speed rail line.
Never forget that China somewhat strictly controls what comes out of the country innterns of media and footage. Much contending out of there is paid for. You can see this in influencers who very awkwardly point the camera away from homeless people when they come into frame briefly. And also the plethora of videos by influencers "going out looking for homeless people" and not finding any.
Wez is also cross platform so I get to use it on my Linux and Mac and my (Ugh) Windows work machine. Configuration being done in Lua is also something I quite like, but your mileage may vary on that one.