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>Unless there is an underlying assumption that the US is incapable of producing these better technologies itself, in which case the US is probably fucked regard
by shiroiushi 2y ago
>Unless there is an underlying assumption that the US is incapable of producing these better technologies itself, in which case the US is probably fucked regardless.
That seems to be a safe assumption these days: I just don't see the US producing these better technologies itself at all. It's still pretty good at making cutting-edge software, but that's about it.
- quasse 2y ago> It's still pretty good at making cutting-edge software, but that's about it Chinese software engineering seems to be catching up extremely fast in this regard too. I'm surprised how often I find an interesting new open source tool or library on GitHub and the comments in the code are all in Mandarin.
- est 2y agoChinese devs were never behind, they just don't contribute much in the past and very few were active in open source community.
- darkstar_16 2y agoThis is true. So many CNCF projects for example these days have a lot of contributions from Chinese devs or originate from companies like Alibaba/Tencent etc