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by Tozen 5y ago
Interesting. Perhaps the writer might find Vlang ( https://vlang.io/ , https://github.com/vlang/v ) to his liking. But many of these newer languages haven't hit 1.0 yet, so are in alpha and beta st
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by Tozen 5y ago
> Why Visual Programming Languages have failed...? I wouldn't say that is the case, because Scratch is quite popular (for example) and hangs around 20th among programming languages on the TIOBE index. If you look at the RPA world,
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by Tozen 5y ago
I think others would argue that Erlang, outside of Smalltalk, came closest. Alan Kay has pretty much made public statements to that effect.
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by Tozen 5y ago
I would argue that many don't hate OOP in general, but rather take issue with class-based OOP ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Class-based_programming ) and the forcing of it as the default paradigm in various langua
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by Tozen 5y ago
Article forgot to mention that Niklaus Wirth was a consultant for the team at Apple that created Object Pascal. Apple had used variations of Pascal and Object Pascal for early Macs. This was in addition to companies using Wirth's Mod
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by Tozen 5y ago
Whatever happened to hemp plastics and other natural non-toxic biodegradable plastics? It's amazing how the world is letting the oil companies (who make the plastics) poison us and destroy our environment at will. Microplastics even i
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by Tozen 5y ago
Good points.
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by Tozen 5y ago
Many people consider Gmail as consenting to spyware. Unfortunately, lots of people don't know any better or haven't bothered to take a good look at the account settings or Google's policies. Anybody that knows better, will a
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by Tozen 5y ago
You are not the only one. A lot of people who experienced using both and could freely choose, have gone with Object Pascal. Lots of people think C++ is too "messy" (among other things that could be said). The key point though is
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by Tozen 5y ago
The problem appears to be that the health and popularity of Object Pascal is intertwined with Delphi/Embarcadero. The better of a job that Embarcadero does at promoting their Delphi product, the more likely people are to find out abou
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by Tozen 5y ago
> and though you might not make your name writing pascal software in 2022 If you look at TIOBE Index, you will see that Delphi/Object Pascal (presently #12) is often ranked above such notables as Go (Golang), Swift, Ruby, Rust, and
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by Tozen 5y ago
I agree with the sentiments expressed by various others. 1) They can get rid of needing to use Linux, whenever convenient. 2) Possibly even replace Android too, if feasible or eventually. 3) Way more control, to make sure open-source &qu
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by Tozen 5y ago
Bing and Yahoo (who is pulling from Bing) are supposedly competitors. The problem is that Google is kicking their butt. Even if Bing became more of a true challenger, Microsoft is doing much of the same, so just replacing one name with an
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by Tozen 5y ago
Rust, Go, Zig, etc... have a huge list of issues. Talking they have thousands of issues... Which is plain to see on GitHub. I think people have to be clear to separate the hate (or sneak hating) that can be spewed out by advocates of com
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by Tozen 5y ago
Would be good to go check out their documentation and/or modules, to get a feel for the language: https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md https://modules.vlang.io/ T
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by Tozen 5y ago
That's clearly incorrect. V has significant differences between it and Go. Suggest actually reading the documentation. https://github.com/vlang/v/blob/master/doc/docs.md
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by Tozen 5y ago
Spouting V is vaporware, is nonsense. Especially when they have an update at around a new one per week and over 90 releases- https://github.com/vlang/v/releases
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by Tozen 5y ago
The first wave of Christine's complaints were when the V programming was just released. That's ludicrous to be doing that, to any programming language. Nobody is going to release a fully finished and complete programming languag
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by Tozen 5y ago
Looks to be about Apple's fear of losing control and allowing free choice.
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by Tozen 5y ago
I agree. Expect Apple to come up with some kind of contingency plan, so they can maximize profits and control, at the expense of their users.
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by Tozen 5y ago
Very good point.
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by Tozen 5y ago
In the opinions of many, Google is a monster. We know it and they know it too. Problem is, what can we do about it? Until then, expect Google to kick dirt in users faces. They will continue to terminate, ban, shadow ban, blacklist, viol
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by Tozen 5y ago
I disagree that it would necessarily take that long. Per the OP, his father is not starting from scratch, and has some programming in his background. Being a CEO, CCO, etc... We can assume his father is an intelligent and successful perso
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by Tozen 5y ago
I think part of the appeal of Scratch evolves around if the kid has learned to type or not. With Scratch being more visual programming orientated, its easier to get into. Other aspects of why it's popular is it being beginner friendl
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by Tozen 5y ago
I read somewhere that Elon Musk prefers C, and doesn't appear to be too fond of class-based OOP.
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"But the flip side of that is that the types of people who tend to gravitate toward those languages are often more interested in programming for it's own sake and not the domain they're working in. So you get things like peop
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by Tozen 5y ago
Thorium isn't "pie in the sky", it's very doable ( https://spectrum.ieee.org/china-closing-in-on-thorium-nuclea... ). The issue was that thorium was abandoned by the U.S. and other countries, because uran
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by Tozen 5y ago
This false-positive problem is a major headache for a lot of open-source programming languages and programs, whose source code is also sitting right there on GitHub to be inspected and compared with. Think that Microsoft could do better wit
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I like it, because the world is not going to reduce its suicidal dependency on fossil fuels with just renewable energy (solar, wind, tidal...). Safe(r) and cheaper nuclear reactors could bridge the gap. But, I do wish the development of th
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by Tozen 5y ago
That's a bit debatable. Vlang is right there too. This would all be relative to what people are trying to do. Many people might really be looking for a C and C++ replacement, of which there are a number of viable alternatives (inclu

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