Hysteria? Have you listened to Karp? Palantir pushes some pretty shit-tier BI noise to clueless executives (it's actually uproarious the mythology that has built around that company), and this weird creep talks like they're the masters of the universe.
Thiel is another incredibly bizarre creep, and he sits as the chairman of the board. Both are very tightly associated with the Trump crime syndicate and the US government, which increasingly is the world's #1 threat, and should be treated as equally dangerous.
The US is undisputedly the world's #1 threat. Like who do you think is even in the running?
Massive military that has bombed ten or so countries in the past year, overthrown a couple more, threatened close allies such that they're getting blood supplies ready and bombs to remove runways. Enormous nuclear arsenal, all in the hands of self-dealing criminal halfwit pathological liar with malignant narcissism as the country flushes down the toilet. A "Department of War" leader who is a simpleton alcoholic clown who rails off "give me tough guy speeches" that he got from ChatGPT, gloating about blatantly illegal -- both in international and US laws -- war crimes, including murdering people in boats just by rebranding them "narco terrorists". A governing party that increasingly is stocked with INSANE fundy nuts who declare that global warming isn't real because the bible didn't mention it, and who salivate about unleashing armageddon. The country is basically lawless at this point -- a busted plutocracy -- and the securities industry has become farcical it is filled with such grift and absolute lawless fraud.
No one holds a candle to that dangerous nuthouse. North Korea, China, Russia...no one is an iota of a danger that the rogue, war-criming United States of America is.
And the "best" part is that we're entering the era of the worst nuclear proliferation in history because of the utter insanity we've seen in the US. I suspect many "own the libs" Americans aren't going to like what inevitably comes next.
Uh...what? Do you know what an ad hominem is? Bizarre.
I directly described the United States of America as it is today. This is just fact, and to the entire rest of the world, America is a busted idiocracy that represents by far the greatest threat to world peace.
EDIT: Oh forgot to mention that the US is directly and openly involved in political interference in many of its allies. Alberta in Canada is a target of a massive US operation right now. Just about every European country. Which is pretty ironic given that the US is basically a fractured pseudo-country where one half of the country hates the other half, and that by all rights should be split up.
Boy, with friends like these, we'll all hope that China's nukes hit their marks with good accuracy.
The people literally are the position. They wield absolute, unchecked power over the might of the US government. What a bizarre thing to complain about.
Trump could literally end humanity tonight. You understand that, right? This proud-he-passed-a-dementia-test serial liar, felonious rapist was given absolutely, unquestioned control over the world's largest nuclear arsenal by the US public. Utter insanity.
Trump and FoxNews Hegseth could send the enormous US military -- screw good healthcare or education, you've got invisible planes! -- to invade Greenland or Canada or Spain. Tonight. With zero opposition.
There are zero checks or restraints on this criminal empire, and the world is seeing the results. It started internally, and that was a spectacular disaster (lol $2T deficit and spiralling economy) so now it's on to the next distraction after the other. Iran didn't give the boost he hoped for, so wonder what the next target will be. Panama? Cuba? Oh I hear they have the "Shield of the Americas" now and think they have Manifest Destiny over the entire Western Hemisphere.
Whatever happens, large parts of the codebase + dependencies will be C++ (or C) for the foreseeable future.
We're working on integrating with Swift, but despite the team's earnest efforts, Swift/C++ interop is still young and unstable.
On a personal note, I'm increasingly feeling like "C++ with a garbage collector" might actually be a reasonable tool for the task at hand. Watching the development of Fil-C in this space..
What'd be the effect of Swift be on the possibility of a Windows port? I know anything end user friendly is ages away, but I don't live in Apple land, and neither does most of the world. Apple has a monopoly on iOS and huge market share on Mac, and is still at 20% or something.
The core Swift Lang has is being made more independent of Apple, and can be compiled for an increasing number of platforms thanks to the LLVM-based compiler
I'm honestly not at all familiar with browsers but I really do wonder if a custom language wouldn't be a reasonable tradeoff. It's not all that insane as that is a path that has been walked before. For instance FoundationDB has their own syntax to manage their actor system which just transpiles to C++: https://github.com/apple/foundationdb/blob/main/flow/README....
V8 also has torque which I think to some degree also fits into that type of mindset.
Out of curiosity, why not C# at this point? It's pretty hard to marry C++ with a high-performant garbage collector, since underlying language semantics does not allow for e.g. compacting GCs.
Apologies. This was an experimental landing page haphazardly thrown together after the investors we're pitching to wanted a two-slide problem/solution. The rest of the app is actually made mobile-first.
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