Sure it is, not his alone, but the ultra rich bribe the government to make sure the rules are broken. They are all at fault. Any attempt to fix these things is stopped by the ultra rich. They have even put their own people on the supreme court! (see comments by the Koch brothers stating this explicitly)
Why does whether a language is JIT or not make any difference? C# is usually jitted but you can AOT compile it just like Go if you want, and you could JIT go if you want.
Yeah it is a strange choice, maybe just reflecting what the creators of Go are used to. They have always had null and haven't had any problems with it, why change?
Null made since in the early days of C, an option type back then would have been prohibitively expensive. Today, not so, any language that can afford garbage collection, the cost of an option type is lost in the noise, and modern compilers can often optimize the cost away entirely. (though that would hurt Go's fast compile times a little bit)
every aaa game still uses rad tools. compression is still a thing for various reasons: fitting more textures in the gpu/ram/etc. for instace, with decode happening on gpu
The google store operates in the same way. Application developers need to band together and quit accepting these locked down store monopolies. They aren't good for consumers either. The usual justification is that these stores reduce fruad and malware, but I have found the opposite to be true. Having a single store leads to an aggressive race to the bottom, where gaming the store ranking is priority one. Last two times I tried to find a rather obvious piece of software on apple store (a chess program, and a stopwatch program) I couldn't even find stuff that wasn't misleading adware ridden crap.
>And self-driving cars is still a problem orders of magnitude simpler than AGI.
You sure?
It might very well be a single order of magnitude harder, or not any harder. Given that solving all the problems of self driving even delves into questions of ethics at times (who do I endanger in this lose lose situation, etc)
Things that support the notion that it is soon are that napkin math suggests the computational horsepower is here now, and that we have had few instances of sudden, unexpected advances in how well neural networks work. (Alpha Go, Alpha Zero, etc).
One might extrapolate that there is a chance that in 10 years, when the computational horsepower is available to more researchers to play with, and we get another step-change advance, that we will get there.
My own feeling is that it is possible AGI could happen soon, but I don't expect it will.
There is some truth to it. The whole ecosystem encourages a lot of things that are bad for developing simple, stable, good performing systems. I don't go anywhere near that world unless I have to for these reasons. You get all the downsides of dynamic language ecosystems, with worse compile times than Rust (webpack etc).