Yeah it’s really good. A few weeks ago, some third party script was messing with click events of my react buttons so I figured I should just add a mousedown even to capture the click before the other script. It was late at night and I was exhausted so I wanted to do a quick and dirty approach of simulating a click after a few ms after the mousedown even. So I told Gemini my plan and asked it to tell me the average time in ms for a click event in order to simulate it… and I was shocked when it straight up refused and told me instead to trigger the event on mouseup in combination with mousedown (on mouse down set state and on mouse up check the state and trigger the event). This was of course a much better solution. I was shocked at how it understood the problem perfectly and instead of giving me exactly what I asked for it gave me the right way to go about it.
Overall, it's been fine. (M1 Max 32GB) There are lots of bugs in apple's apps and a few bugs in other apps. I probably wouldn't have upgraded if I didn't need the new Xcode (which has been buggy). I can't think of one new feature that would make we stay on Tahoe if I didn't need the new Xcode. I would hold off for a .1 unless you really wanted it.
One mistake I did make when upgrading was not updating little snitch, and I couldn't get any network connection for a bit until I reinstalled that app via USB.
Just as a fun fact, React’s jsx is actually a port of XHP which was initially developed for PHP in 2009 I believe. This would explain why react’s components were class based at first (because php leans heavily towards class based OO programming).
> What feature does it offer that other scripting languages don't?
It has pretty much the best type support of all other similar languages (typescript is a different category). It also has the best implementation of class-based object oriented features (interfaces, classes, abstract classes, etc). These features are incredible for designing OO systems from scratch. The only big feature missing is generics.
Correct. I’ve been using ai chatbots more and more instead of google search (I still use google quite a lot but considerably less than a year or two ago).
...but ironically that chatbot is Gemini from ai studio, so still the same company but a different product.
Google search will look very different in the next 5-10 years compared to the same period a decade ago.
But Firefox is a for profit company worth millions? Why would you just donate it like that to a corporation? For the longest time I thought Mozilla was a non profit org but it doesn’t seem to be the case and they have millions in the bank? I would sell it for a fair price for both parties.
Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit entity wholly owned by the Mozilla Foundation. That's why they can keep lots of cash on hand and reinvest it into the business.
> This is the future; partially fuelled by malware, partially fuelled by the desire for platform control, and partially fuelled by government regulation.
I would say it’s really 50% platform control, 50% government regulation.
It’s the same thing with php. I would say it’s probably because they are languages from the 90s, but then you have python and JavaScript which are from the same era too and people never question their relevance or “modernity”. All of these languages (even java) have been in constant development since then and all of them have modern features. Why are some considered modern and some outdated when they are all basically from the same era?
PHP typically required a web-server, system administration which is old fashioned. No one wants to do that which is fine as it keeps me employed.
When Ruby made western presence it was clunky. No one knew what it was and it got stuck with that personality. It had an ecosystem too but never hooked in to the western world.
Java is tainted by Oracle and seen as "business".
And it's also weird how Postgres has made an uprising appearance. It was sitting duck back in the 00's. I knew it existed because as an script kiddie I could install a php forum and select it as a database backend but I never did.
Want to make a LCD display? You can simply by slapping a python library in to your code.
Ecosystems pull coders in. Thinking about it, it's probably why Perl was popular before with CPAN.
The old net was special but skills had to be learnt. Remember the days when you had one server for one service?
The new net is terrible but everything is handed to you on a golden plate.
> PHP typically required a web-server, system administration which is old fashioned
IMHO deploying PHP to production is easier than Ruby/Python. You need a web-server but once it's configured (not a rocket science) you just copy all .php files. For ruby you also want to have a web-server (e. g. nginx) unless the load is negligible. If you want to deploy a project with all dependencies you probably need something like rvm but some gems would be easier to install form OS packages (like pg or other wrappers around C/C++ libraries installed from OS packages too). And then for ruby you need an additional daemon (HTTP) which will be restarted on updates (and auto-restarted if it will crash).
Postgres didn't really become the darling of SQL databases until rather recently.. i'd say the last 5-10 years. It was a clunky DB back in the day compared to MySQL.
At least when I first encountered Ruby it felt somewhat cool and exotic, I think because of a combination of its friendly website (compared to say Java), Japanese origin, and the fact that some of the first Ruby I ever learned was from why's (poignant) Guide to Ruby.
Don't recent PHP releases actually have a pretty good selection of nice, modern features? Union types, JIT compiler, pattern matching against types, nullsafe operator, gradual typing, etc. It seems like FP style is better and better supported with each new release, which is another hallmark of modern languages like Rust.
If you're stuck on some cursed, barely-maintained PHP 6 legacy codebase, you can't enjoy these things, but when it comes to choosing PHP for new projects it seems like it's more modern than its reputation.
