There are very, very few backward incompatible changes in Java

I swear I saw an article on here a few months ago about the decline of Rails

Someone needs to coin the term "mansion-shedding": Bikeshedding, but it's about the choice between two or more proven, reliable, working solutions.

I'd argue it's not the same thing. Bike-shedding happens over trivial, subjective things where any opinion is as valid, and hard to rebuke because of the subjectivity.

When it comes to arguing over large projects, the difficulty to rebuke comes not from subjectivity, or trivial-ism, but from the project being so complex there are few with the context/experience who can properly compare the two.

There is tons of subjectivity in software development; people can't even agree when types are better than duck typing and vice versa. Even if there is some definite answer to all these questions we are not all ever going to agree on it in big numbers, so yes I think language framework wars can be called bikeshedding in most cases. Especially considering comparing Rails and Django is comparing two very very robust, "old" and proven solutions with about equal performance and feature set. Even the syntax is pretty similar. If one is objectively "better" it's not gonna be by much. It's not gonna matter at all to your average project which one you choose.

> Gradle itself isn't written in Groovy; it's 5% Java, 95% Kotlin

This doesn't appear to be true just by looking at the Gradle GitHub repository. It claims that the code in the repo is 46% Groovy, 44% Java and 6% Kotlin

Childless people already pay more taxes since they don't have dependents to claim

Child tax deductions don’t even come close to canceling out the lost revenue of a potential future taxpayer over their lifetime. Especially given today’s near zero interest rate environment.

Look at it this way, properly incentivizing children would mean that the average couple with two kids would pay zero net taxes over their life. With zero rates a non taxpayer who reproduces at replacement has the same equivalent fiscal value as a childless full taxpayer.

But I (happening to have two kids) consume government services now in addition to creating the linked supply and demand for government services that my kids represent.

It doesn’t seem like “promising my kids will pick up the tab at replacement rate” is enough to be stable.

Hmm... That's a fair point. The wrinkle is not all government services scale linearly with users. For example, if there were twice as many Americans we probably wouldn't need twice the defense budget.

Helping to support people who have children is a pretty popular policy I think. People like public schools, right? Let's just do that, but more.

Punishing people for not having kids is obviously ridiculous.

But they also didn’t produce a taxpayer who would contribute to the pot.

But they also didn't take up a space at a taxpayer-subsidized daycare or kindergarten or state university.

Sure but then they mostly aren’t keeling over three years after retiring.

They also pay more taxes because they pay for schools and lots of services that those who have children take advantage of.

And that they themselves took advantage of, even the childless were children

Yeah, I was hoping that they would learn from Yarn pnp

Because it's useful?

What do they do with the skeleton?

The past's chicken of tomorrow is the chicken of today

I love my original Xbox One. It has all the apps, a blu ray player and the hdmi in for a cable box or anything else you want. It's sad to think that it's unlikely that anyone will ever make anything like that again

This all sounds incredibly nefarious

Every other industry in the country being an instruction manual.

If you ever thought this was going to be about a multi-decade long organic merchant adoption story, you were gullible af.