Maybe I'm wrong and this is new to a lot of people! I have a limited perspective based on my programming journey, which winds mostly through gamedev, graphics programming, and DSP, both (typically) low level domains. But I think if the title if the article were more accurate, (e.g. "What are pointers?"), my reaction would be more clear. I'm also kinda taken aback by the "old grey beard" comment. Look at all the kids using Rust, Zig, even C and tell me that this is obscure knowledge.
When I took my first programming class at RIT, visualizing the stack, variables, and pointers was one of the first classes we had. It's one of those beginner diagrams that I feel like everyone is familiar with. But I can understand that there are programming domains with equivalent complexity which don't require that base knowledge. I apologize if I came off as elitist.
I think Elixir/Phoenix has to be the best stack currently for building applications with real-time features and that's all thanks to BEAM. Perhaps Go is another decent alternative but I definitely prefer BEAM's concurrency model.
As a Catholic, I appreciate how Christian it is of course but I would be surprised if other people, especially atheists felt the same. I’m wondering how it hasn’t come under scrutiny yet?
>I think command line utilities are in a worse financial position than GUI utilities, because people are accustomed to paying for GUI apps, but aren’t accustomed to paying for things in the shell at all.
I think that's because command line tools are more appealing to technical people. For convenience sake and ease of use, most average computer users will use GUI tools or applications.
I'm specifically talking about developer utilities. Even developers are accustomed to paying for GUI apps but not command line stuff. To be fair I've never seen anyone selling a local (non-SaaS) command line only tool either.
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