There are plenty of programs out there which can end up being required for your workflow - as in, that exact program; no exceptions - and yet, have no Linux or even non-Windows version.
Not everything is a platformm-agnostic subscription-based SAAS yet, nor should that ever be the case.
We don’t have anyone actively working on Windows support, […] We would like to do Windows eventually, but it’s not a priority at the moment.
As much as I applaud this focus on just one broad OS architecture, as it will greatly speed development, leaving out Windows is likely to cut off 85-90% of all early adopters. I just hope that the benefit of a simplified target will outweigh ignoring the vast majority of the market.
And honestly, methinks they should focus on Haiku OS before Windows, as it is closer to a Unix heritage than Windows is. And Haiku OS desperately needs a native modern web browser with all the bells and whistles.
Remember: all published scientific reports are exceptionally conservative by design.
As we have seen time and time again, what is projected to happen invariably impacts much worse than predicted, or occurs much sooner than predicted. And frequently both at the same time.
Every few years, the prior “worst case scenarios” get re-applied as our “best-case scenarios” moving forward. As in, the evidence that rolls in keeps exceeding our most pessimistic prior predictions for that evidence.
We are accelerating past +1.5℃ of warming, which is generated from 1990s CO2 levels (warming trails CO2 by about two decades). This means that +2℃ is pretty much baked into the pie, even if all Petro sources planet-wide get shut down tomorrow and we go total cold turkey.
Under “business as usual” projections - which we have not deviated from one single iota - we are looking at +5℃ warming at absolute minimum.
What does a +5℃ world look like? It’s one where the agriculture to feed more than 1-2 billion on a totally vegan diet is impossible due to chaotic weather, and persistently lethal wet bulb temperatures make almost a third of the planet - where 4.2 billion people currently live - impossible for permanent habitation even with modern first-world consumer and commercial AC.
And guess what? Just like a hurled cinder block, climate change has inertia. prior warming events have always corrected themselves because they took hundreds of centuries to play out, allowing entire ecosystems to quite literally migrate and adapt. But we are seeing 100,000 years of climate change within a single century. This can impart an inertial vector that could easily bring temperatures into a Venus Scenario range with or even without our continued presence. At that point, it’s bye-bye all life, and not just us.
Those climate scientists that work with population demographers and climate-aware economists are already making some very conservative predictions of a 40% collapse of the human race by 2050 due to worldwide famines and cascading infrastructure collapses, and an 80-95% collapse of the population by 2070. Their middle of the road projections are much, much worse.
Suffice it to say, we have a non-trivial probability of going extinct this century. My apologies to anyone younger than 40. The latter half of your life is gonna suck donkey’s balls something bad.
DotNet Core as a whole (C# + F# + other languages that are being ported to compile down to a DotNet binary).
Because it has all the things Java promised us - frictionless, painless, cross-platform programs - but is implementing it far better than Java ever could.
Honestly, DotNet Core is now at least a half-decade or more ahead of Java in terms of the base platform and C# language functionality/ease-of-use. The only advantage Java has at this point is it’s community ecosystem of third-party features and programs.
When done right, the trash takes itself out. At least this saves the taxpayer some money.
Sure sounds like labour to me.
And there is no requirement for labour to generate income immediately. A majority of labour is front-loaded, with income being back-loaded.
Server maintenance and updating code to work with current releases is still “labour”. Because sure as shit you’ve been doing these things… no hosting provider is going to let you go 10 years with zero updates or patches to the website or the underlying framework that allows the website to run. Because failing to do that is how entire hosting platforms get rooted and infected with malware.