"The window is open for a major shift to happen. First gradually, then suddenly. It feels like morning in Linux land!"

> Brain-dead simple syntax.> Great stdlib.> Loads of libraries.> Decent enough C inter-op .> Compiler compiles around 100k lines of code per second (so pretty much instant). > Green threads make it really easy to do stuff in parallel. > Very fast garbage collector. > You can

We need to talk about how American airport timetable screens are alphabetically ordered by destination. While Europeans ones are ordered by departure time. And the American ordering is just way faster to find your flight and gate

Talk is cheap, show me the companies.

@lionarys7 @brjavaman @JavaOne We did some work with Rust. It’s interesting, but:.1. We have a lot of stuff already built in Java (libraries and such).2. We’re more productive with Java. Maybe that’s just experience, but we have a lot of Java devs. 3. The JVM is just as fast for real world applications . Not.

The game community in shambles, throwing tantrums and melting down because an indie hacker built a $100k/mo game in a week is worth of studying. People are now realizing that someone with agency and the guts of putting something out there is out-earning decades of technical.