You pointed right in the middle, but try to rationalize with someone who is a crypto advocate? I bet that it will be a completely usefulness conversation. The crypto money rely purely on USD exchange and that's why suddenly appeared so many crypto startups, because their "value" is speculative.
I cannot recommend enough for everyone who has a minimal sensibility towards the climate impact to read this thread: https://twitter.com/smdiehl/status/1350869944888664064. Since we are inevitable heading over to a climate catastrophe it's really the time to advocate against bitcoin.
I was wondering if these developers have any ethical concerns about the environmental impact they are responsible for by developing a technology which I can categorize with a single world: ABSURDITY!
I just looked at the source code and I'm very skeptical about what the author claims. The way the code is structured and is written is not very professional. Also I don't see any benchmarks. If you claims something at least give valid sources.
> I worked with Magento every day and I am glad the language is more than Java than it used to be, it means we can organise our code better
Do you consider Magento being a framework you are happy to work with? I'm also working in Magento 2 and honestly it's a painful experience. It's a so bloated framework that without cache enabled the development is completely awful.
This is exactly the same what I'm thinking about: what's the purpose to redesign something which was good and familiar with something which is totally unpleasant. On a large monitor you have to move not only your eyes, but your head from left to right, from top to down just to find the relevant information, which on the old github was on the right place. Too bad there isn't an option to revert to the old design.
It seems to me Github from the Microsoft acquisition is going into a wrong direction.
I remember an article from Figma or even possible from you, where you mentioned that you have rewritten in Rust a tool originally written in node.js. And I remember, back at that time (I think it was 2 years ago) you were very exited about the language. How does it compare to the current situation? What made you to think that Go is a better and enjoyable language than Rust? Is it the faster GC?
A recently published article from a guy working at Discord throw a real flameware, because he was arguing about the opposite: Rust is a better and faster language then Go, but he based his assumption on very old version of Go (1.9) where the GC was way slower then in the current versions.
It's not about founding or donation, it's all about false promises. How you can give false assumptions about something which does not exists and it's not provable. I'm thinking here about all the optimistic features the author is acclaiming. As some of the commenters mentioned practically is impossible to build a product (a new programming language) in solo and having only a couple of thousands of LOC.
99% of percent of the new programming languages are nothing more than a syntactic sugar over an existing language, and 99% percent of their developers are developing without any real use case and. I suppose they are made only to collect some money (by donations eventually). As they are developed they are immediately forgotten.