I wish Emacs LISP gained ergonomic static typing. I always find working in un-typed languages very hard.

Can someone explain to me how is that Java/Kotlin ecosystem has managed to use maven repositories for 3 decades now with very few of these issues ?

You mean like the KPMG's AI-written report praising AI that was withdrawn after hallucinated cases studies ?

AI Slop Targeting already caused significant civilian casualties in the Hormuz War.

Someone really needs to build an "Evil Companies" list with flowcharts showing the date/time of demonic possession.

I started building one some years ago, until a friend pointed out that I’d be unemployable and probably targeted.

I guess one of the people who made their millions and retired should do it

With Starlink, now CEOs can use AI to make decisions from any water in the world!

Crowdsource it - do it on Wikipedia?

still easy enough to target, and with the added benefit of non-stop internecine wikipedia arguments + the marketing depts of these firms edit pages + potential lawsuits

Do it anonymously?

Calling @cstross as technology and demonic possession seem to be some of his core competences.

Is @catross generally responsive to beetlejuicing of this nature?

The conspiracy uncle was right after all.

  "You will own nothing and be happy" - WEF Prime Objective.

The difference between conspiracy theory and established fact are 10 years time.

Uber kept fares artificially low while simultaneously paying high bonuses to drivers to build a massive network. After burning through roughly $30+ billion over its first decade, Uber then pivoted its business model by raising rider fares, increasing restaurant fees on Uber Eats, and cutting driver pay.

Basically, win market through subsidy -> establish monopoly -> increase price -> profit.

I believe Firefox without ads is faster & safer than Chrome with Ads.

Well, some Chinese AI companies like Zhipu AI are actually increasing price. Let us see the trend in 2027 when the money runs out there too.

> A slower, untested, incomplete git implementation, all for the low low price of $10-$15,000.

That $15k is indeed a very low low subsidized AI price. It will be $150k next year.

Why was the component model not expressed in LISP syntax like the way WAT is ? Why have yet another custom IDL language with bespoke parsing rules ?

There is a wat (s expression) syntax for the component model. The problem with the wat syntax for both Wasm and the component model is they’re a reflection of a binary format, and therefore are terrible for writing by hand. They’re designed to be written by tools, and the text format is just to help you understand the binary format.

I’ve written Wasm and component model wat extensively over the last decade to develop tests for Wasmtime, and even for an expert it’s a bad experience.

Wit syntax is easy to read and write by hand. There are high quality parsers that can transform it to and from the binary or wat format as needed, and code generators for a wide range of languages. It’s a way, way better experience in every way to deal with wit compared to the wat format.

Seconding this. Writing .wast files by hand is kind of fun as a novelty, but it's in no way something I'd want to maintain interfaces in.

Declarative interfaces via the WIT format are so much more readable in comparison; I'm really happy that's the direction we took for the component model.