I mean, If you ignore the advances in engineering and computer research of the last half century and just go with something new, different and unproven because a friend told you so, can you really blame technology?
It's been opensourced which as far as I can tell, means that the developers wash their hands now and leave to move on to new, easier and more fun things than writing a decent text editor. They delivered half of what they promised 1 year overdue. But I guess if you want something done now you're free to write it yourself ;)
So you're unwilling to learn something potentially better because you're were offended by a (surely) tiny portion of its userbase? Lose the childish attitude. You owe it to your craft and users to keep learning and using better tools.
Heh, might as well just use another language at this time. Guido himself seemed to be very pissed off at the common lispers for being forced to add some functional language features. You can see it from the crappy implementations of single-arity lambdas, non lazy map, filter, reduce, etc. The language will never catch up to the times, as evident in the lame feature list in python 3. Most python users seem blissfuly ignorant of modern languages and Guido doesn't seem to like learning new stuff either.
Holy shit this site. This crap is getting so much upvotes, the comments in here make me vomit. Where are the mods? surely they would never allow this kind of link on this site?
It's best if you actually just _read_ code everyday and the writing is just the side effect of tinkering with it. Like chess you will save a lot of time by learning from other people's games before you actually do something on your own.
So if I'm neither american or european. Is it actually easier for me to move to europe, get a visa there and start an european company than an american one?
A little off-topic but the fantasy series Broken Empire are set in a post-apocalyptic world similar to the one you described. When I read them I thought that was very original.
This kind of comment always makes me smile. Half-assed complaints that people make because no one gives a crap about what happens in the world unless it personally affects them. In my opinion it's as simple as "do you think it's good to spy on people?". And if you truly care and your answer is no then you will go out of your way to make it stop. Half measures don't change anything.
We have authorities to stop psychos who think the only way to solve that issue themselves is to beat the thief to death.
That aside I think your advice is cowardly and people should learn to solve their own problems. Sometimes that includes learning to communicate with others.