I know this is satire but we're in the process of rewriting the .NET Mediatr library because ... it's nothing but a simple design pattern packaged as a paid nuget package. We don't even need LLMs to reprogram it.
So the need is real, at least for enshittified libraries.
Yep, me too. That’s the eternal trade-off. I’m always pretty sure that there’s a specific Emacs function or mode that does exactly what I want, but I mostly can’t be bothered to find it beyond a quick guessing search via apropos (C-h a). I brute-force my way through a lot of tasks using keyboard macros that might otherwise be solved more elegantly if I had the time.
Financial targets will be hit, if many people buy their phones. But the question is whether they are short term optimizing, or having it as a long term strategy.
I've seen a lot of "I've ported X to Go/Rust" posts lately. Is it the expectation that we're all supposed to abandon the original projects in favor of the ported versions which use newer and shinier programming languages? Is development going to continue on those new "Go/Rust" ports or are they just one-off karma farming projects?
This is precisely why Microsoft created WSL2