_akei's comments

It was the next logical step for Russia after they built their own GPS and their alternative to the World Bank, the BRICS bank. Their biggest enemy has proven that they cannot be trusted and they are the ones who invented the Internet. Anytime they have a disagreement with a nation, they take their ball and go home. Like what they were doing with Huawei. I won't be surprised if China and India are working on the same kind of project.

This world needs an alternative to anything built by the USA. That way superpowers will have to go to the negotiation table on an equal footing. We don't want one bully. We need at least 5 bullies.

Capitalism is unethical. No economic system is perfect. Ironically, when the rich in the US are in financial trouble, they force government to be communist. Like in 2008 recession, companies were bailed out using taxpayers’ money. I am not denying that US has to do everything in their power to bring the deficit down, but they must stop pretending to be a free market while doing the exact opposite of a free market. Protectionism is only expected from communist countries, not countries that market themselves as free markets.

What is incorrect about my statement? In case you don’t know or want to be reminded, the name of the ruling party in China is called ‘China Communist Party’.

US residents have to compete with prospective students from other countries. Some of those countries rank better than the US when coming to STEM subjects. They end up getting admission ahead of US residents.

Solution is to improve teaching of STEM subjects at primary and high school level. The problem will sort itself. Second option is protectionist in nature. Favour US residents ahead of international students, even when international students are way better. Second option will only drop the quality of PhD graduates coming from those colleges.

Clear and concise to someone new to programming. Also less typing. Comparison of an a market leader to a new entrant is designed to make you switch from market leader to new entrant in the market.

I am indeed talking about Android Java.

Now that is a good strategy. Copy directly from a language that is moving at a very fast pace and competing directly with the language you want to replace.

It is mostly C# that is keeping Java on their toes. Java competes with C# than any other language in this world. In the enterprise space, it is either Java or C#. If you check most of their improvements, they were done ion C# first, then they follow.

Checked Exceptions are the main reason I switched to C#.NET. I hated checked exception. I know the designers wanted to save us from ourselves but they ended up making the language verbose.

Thanks. It makes sense because it doesn't have statement. Ternary operator wasn't going to be possible.

> What's the difference between ternary operator and inline if/else?

There is no difference. Ternary operator is a syntactic sugar for if/else.

> Is there even any reason for if/else that doesn't return a value (that may be void/unit/similar)?

Main reason why an if statement returns a value is because it is used to test if condition is true or false. If it returns other values, it was going to make it more complicated. Especially when you have an if statement with multiple conditions that must be ORed or ANDed.

What is awful about the variable syntax? This syntax was copied directly from C language.

I haven't used Scala before. What is their reasoning for that?

They explain it here[1] on their discussion forum but still it doesn't make sense to me. If is a statement in every language I know and returns a value, but still those languages have ternary operator. I suspect they don't want to end up with a language similar to what we already have. They want to be different. Even when it isn't necessary.

[1] https://kotlinlang.org/docs/reference/control-flow.html

Whenever I see an article comparing a market leader with an underdog, I always know that the article will be biased against the market leader. It is human nature to root for the underdog. What was the reason for not starting with variables II? I suspect the author wanted to manipulate our minds right there. It is obvious that Java version is the better of the two but they decided to start with a variable with final. Ternary operator for Kotlin doesn't look like ternary to me. It is just an inline if\else.

> making our amazing designer create a Shopify site that he/she can manage him/herself

This statement sounds like your co-founder is just getting rid of you because he realised a designer can do better than you and won't need shares of the company. You validated the market for him and he doesn't need you. This is the reason I always tell idea guys to pay me or go and learn programming themselves and implement their ideas.

Maybe they are saying it is much easier to enter the country? I will give an example with my own country -> South Africa. We have more white people than all other Africa countries combined. We have more Chinese people than all other African countries combined. We have more Indians than all other African countries combined. I won't even be surprised if we have more Indians than US percentage-wise. That sounds like a country that is more open to the rest of the world according to me.

However, there are nationalists who aren't welcoming if you are from a poor African country. They only welcome other races expect their own race -> African. It is mostly poor African people who think other Africans are coming to take their jobs. Good thing is that they don't have government support. Unlike in the US where it is the head of state telling people not to come to their country.

I suspect we even make our border to be porous just to allow other people to freely enter the country.

Even though South Africa has 11 official languages, English is the most official language in South Africa. When speeches are delivered by public officials, they are 99% in English. All official documents have English in it. Even the government official website is in English [1]. It is the only compulsory language at school. All private and urban schools teach English as a first language, then other languages as additional languages. Parents this side make sure their kids can speak English before they speak their own indigenous languages. Not mine though.

[1] https://www.gov.za/welcome-official-south-african-government...

I started seeing it on VS2017. I use it a lot in VS2019.

Visual Studio copied Resharper. VS now suggests some new language features.

For that to happen, functional languages have to take over. Most people are just not into functional programming languages. They prefer imperative programming languages. I feel Microsoft is doing a great job of slowly forcing C#.NET Developers to learn F#. It was so easy for me to learn F#. It was so strange that I was able to understand a functional programming language. I didn't have luck learning other functional languages.