• Avid Amoeba@lemmy.ca
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      4 days ago

      The horse-car analogies rarely achieve what you want them to, especially in situations where we don’t have the benefit of hindsight.

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      4 days ago

      More akin to Elon insisting the cybertruck is the way of the future, and people just keep buying Rivians and internal combustion vehicles.

      • ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world
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        Especially as there’s D, a language that when used in betterC mode, is on-par with C, minus the archaic precompiler, which is replaced with very powerful metaprogramming capabilities.