That one media guy asking about Zelensky's lack of a suit and it being disrespectful to the Oval Office. Completely out of touch, the man has about a million other things to worry about than that.
After having 2 fridges go in the last month (one regular and one beverage fridge) I can't wait until more regulation comes in place so that appliances aren't so throwaway. The support person said average life expectancy is about 8 years which is ridiculously low.
Last time I used GraalVM, there were huge holes in what language features were supported, compiling dynamic code was hit-or-miss, and also its cross-compilation story was not good (requires you to compile it on the target architecture). Perhaps my information is out-of-date now?
Yeah I find the argument for Graal to be very disingenuous. It’s certainly not an out of the box solution; I’d say it’s just another Java technology stack we would need to learn. And there are so many of those.
So I guess I also like Go’s batteries-included standard library.
Yeah, I still check on it every once in a while and I updated a small app to JDK11, but the industry has changed a lot since then. I know Java is still huge, but IMO that's in spite of Oracle, not because of them. The proverbial ship has sailed for me. If Oracle told me the sky is blue, I'd be looking up to verify it.
I completely gave up on JavaFX the day Microsoft bought Xamarin. My impression at the time was that Oracle just didn't care about JavaFX and barely supported their own developers. AFAIK they never did anything to encourage 3rd party developers even though there was some really cool stuff. Ex: Microsoft ended up owning RoboVM.
I also remember being frustrated the first time I looked at the JavaFX repo myself and saw how few committers there were. All the while Oracle would be simultaneously claiming they're investing in the tech, but actually dumping stuff [2] on the community. It's like they viewed open source as nothing more than a way to externalize costs for things they didn't want to maintain.
I never had the inside track on anything, so I don't know what the real story is, but my impression of it has always been that it was badly managed by someone higher up the chain than the people that managed JavaFX directly. Based on my experience everyone on the JavaFX team always made a ton of effort and tried foster a small but growing community.
Speaking of community, it was plagued with the same kind of doublespeak. Oracle would be on the mailing list telling everyone they wanted to work with the community [3] at the exact same time they were telling all of us to file our bugs using a plain text input box on bugs.java.com. How the hell do you submit a runnable test case using a single, 4 line high text box?
And if you need any kind of indicator to demonstrate Oracle's lack of ability to foster a developer community or provide developers with modern resources, go look at that bug filing system I keep complaining about. It's still the same awful system that looks like a holdover from the 90s.
This is all just my opinion, but I honestly believe Oracle squandered a huge opportunity with JavaFX.
Yes this please! I recently found out the hoops one must jump through to sign code, I've basically have given up until one of the CI services will provide a way.
MacOS has built-in file versioning since Lion. Whenever you save a file, it creates a version. You can browse and restore an old version using the program that created it.
Admittedly, this only works for applications that use the API. For anything in plain text you should probably be using a git repo though.
You have some good points, however Apple has allowed (even if temporarily) third-parties to exist on the periphery to fill-in solutions. TarSnap, SpiderOak One and BackBlaze all seem like viable options. Perhaps even Carbonite too.
