Problem is that requires carefully testing, and not every company wants to have a half-assed port that doesn’t have a good experience on the desktop.

Only Brazil is there because it has a big population.

You’re right that garbage collection makes Go simpler, and maybe other patterns do contribute to prevent complexity from piling up. I never worked with Go outside of silly examples to try it out, so I’m no authority about it.

What I meant was more of a “general” rule that the simpler a language is, the more code is necessary to express the same thing and then the intent can become nebulous, or the person reading might miss something. Besides, when the language doesn’t offer feature X, it becomes the programmer’s job to manage it, and it creates an extra mental load that can add pesky bugs (ex: managing null safety with extra checks, tracking pointers and bounds checking in C and so on…).

Also there are studies that show the number of bugs in a software correlate with lines of code, which can mean the software is simply doing more, but also that the more characters you have to read and write, the higher the chance of something to go wrong.

But yeah, this subject depends on too many variables and some may outweigh others.

There’s no free lunch after all. Go’s quick compilation also means the language is very simple, which means all the complexity shifts to the program’s code.

I think when it comes to tooling, some Linux tools are actually BSD software that works because of POSIX compliance. An example is OpenSSH.

This kind of thing can be easily automated nowadays. It’s not really a problem.

That’s a good argument.

And at that point you’ll also have a better idea of the problem and solution.

If I was gonna make a suggestion, it would be to use some formatting tool such as black to make sure your code is styled in a standard way.

I think Lemmy has very few users to have such limitations.

It helps to look up certain concepts in the Wiki (Arch Wiki is probably the most complete and well explained) as you come across them. The idea is to increase knowledge little by little, but over time it compounds.

I mean, the way I see it he also has an economic incentive to endorse more AI everywhere.

On the other hand he seems to be one of the people actually pushing for saner legislation.

Seems like it allows self hosting as well. It seems to have more stuff indeed.

It isn’t a native UI, but the effort made to look native on each platform must be appreciated.

This is very useful. I think I’ll stick with it.

As much as I do like programming in Java, you have a good point.

Yep, this is called model distillation.

What about accessibility?

Or anything that downloads code from an untrusted source…

That’s the same thing I’d do when o used Arch. Always kept up to date to announcements of something major like a DE upgrading and usually would reset all the settings just in case. It avoided me any problems during the years I ran it.