How is that supposed to work? The international community doesn’t pay for US infrastructure.

The USA are a huge market for handguns and keep for example the European companies in business.

A separate harddrive for backups is lost technology apparently.

Old Mac OS before Mac OS X used : as path separator Macintosh HD:Users:yourUserName:Desktop:My File.txt. It’s still used for AppleScript. Converting from and to POSIX paths using / happens pretty regularly when writing AppleScript nowadays.

That’s also the reason why : is still an illegal character to use for file names on macOS.

Programming languages come with their own niches, tools, culture, and history. Gradle has lots of verbosity, complexity, and so on. It’s a build system and a dependency manager in one. Other languages separate these duties.

A cultural preference for tools written in specific languages or available for specific platforms exists as well. Lots of C/C++ programmers dislike everything Java. They will cite performance and philosophy. They ask why should they install and manage JVM versions and installs for a task they can do with a make file, a shell script, and Conan/vcpkg.

Not even all Java folks use gradle. maven and ant ant are still around and I’ve seen someone write Java build tasks using rake.

Driving a cyber truck is sure to get you some attention. That’s valuable to some people.

It has a bold futuristic exterior design and looks.