All institutions have a tendency to become complacent and self-serving over time. This kind of scrutiny and pressure from outside is necessary to interfere with that tendency.
As is often observed, liberals (of the political philosophy, not the party) are always far more ready to align themselves with fascists than with the left, despite their sometimes leftish words.
It's wise to wait and see, given their recent history.
I'm no Rust expert, but in my experience the borrow checker is a pain for a bit, then you start to get a sense of what works and what doesn't, and after a while it has taught you to write cleaner code.
Maybe I'm a bad programmer, or maybe I'm just busy and tired, but honestly I don't often care enough to investigate until I need to build something similar.
At the bottom of the article there's a tapestry of an NVIDIA graphics chip created on a computer-controlled loom.
Yes. They just don't want the AI being trained on its own excrement.
This should be the splash screen on every distro.
That's why I'd love to see more developers take another look at Linux. Such that they may develop better proficiency in the basic katas of the internet. Such that they aren't scared to connect a computer to the internet without the cover of a cloud.
The developers I have come across mostly use Linux if they can, or another OS if they can't (e.g. when developing specifically for Apple or Microsoft platforms). Are there many that haven't even looked at it?
Interesting topic but what a terribly written article. Did they just ask ChatGPT a few questions and paste together random chunks of the answers? It keeps suggesting there are downsides, but never even names one.
You and everyone else. I'd have to see a few problem-free years from Intel before I'd return to them.
She should have added, "but don't let that put you off."