Yes of course, but companies will prefer to work with middlemen rather than directly employing individual contractors because it makes legal and accounting easier. There’s often a lot of hurdles to employ an individual directly, like requiring the contractor to have a million dollar insurance policy say
Seems like a lot of money for that, but companies are willing to pay it
I use Swift professionally and have written some Rust for fun, and like both languages a lot. I find Swift to be faster to write, not least because it's easier to manually prevent retain cycles than to write borrow-checker approved code. It's also much easier to leak memory and write unsafe threaded code in Swift, so there's a trade-off there.
I'm sure if I wrote more Rust I'd get faster at it, though I do think it has a fundamentally more complicated programming model.
I liked this quote from the article: "People don't choose between things, they choose between descriptions of things."
I can't claim to know what BI would look like if widely implemented, but I think it's preferable to mass un/under-employment, which seems like a clear possibility.
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