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For me it’s string handling, no private, unused variable is compilation error, and having to implement interfaces myself.

Go changed something, not sure if 20 or 21, where it will download the Go compiler of all your third-party which don’t match yours. It slows things down.

Yeah, not a fan of the idea that now the standard library is distributed as source code and packages are compiled on demand.

> std::range should stay where it is, and the new one be introduced as std::range/v2

Isn’t this what editions are for?


Yes, but no, but also yes.

Editions are for language evolution. Evolving the std does fit the bill. Edition aware path resolution isn't a thing. It will likely be a thing starting with Edition 2027. Range is likely to be the first type to use this feature upcoming.


Which is why I always give library evolution as one example why editions don't solve everything as many people think they do.

Don't let perfect be the enemy of good enough. This is much better, IMO, than what many other languages do, including Go's modulename/v2 style.

Except Zig is not 1.0

Of course, just a good case study of how radical languge changes are received by users.

> C++ codebases

Now this one sounds almost unbelievable :). I’ve yet to see 3 or more C++ codebases using the same language feature set.


> Productivity. You generate the skeleton of the code with Codex/Claude Code/et. al. and refactor it manually.

This doesn’t mean much if you are using a terminal editor.


Thinking -> Pay something else (AI) to "think" for you

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> "Working my ass off as an IC who can't move up the gradient" -> "Principal Investigator, CEO, CTO, CMO, CRO of a 10-person team, captain of creation, actual Iron Man."

* Are you being compensated for all those roles you now do?

* If you do 5x does this mean you get more time for yourself or are you now busy 24/7 with more work?

* Extrapolate this all other "5x" IC, now you all are CEO CTO CMO CRO iron man. Now what?


Have you somehow sourced unsubsidized inference? Isn't all of this built on the false economy of a handful of very large vendors trying to capture you?

We have unsubsidized inference at home!

Let's assume you're not just delusional about your own abilities.

Do you expect everyone else to become 'actual iron man'?


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> The opportunity to climb the ladder is the strongest it has ever been.

I think what you're missing is that AI shows, more directly than most other technologies, the ladder you're climbing is made up of other people. Not everyone wants to get ahead that way.


You haven't answered my question.

What happens to everyone else?


Society is just 3 meals away from going that route

+1. The idea of making tiling + floating a first class citizen was the best decision they made.


> My cynical take why TUIs are back is because people operating in the terminal became a signal that you were competent and once people figured that out everybody started doing it

Are you saying GUI "the real deal"?


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