> The best way to address these problems is to avoid inheriting the legacy of C or C++ directly, and instead start with solid language foundations like a modern generics system, modular code organization, and consistent, simple syntax.
That last part seems to imply that the authors don't consider C++ syntax to be a good foundation for a modern successor language, so they chose to change it. As to why change it in a Rust-like direction I'd imagine that it's both because it's what fashionable at the time and possibly to attract people who are already familiar with that style.
Some people have already mentioned several problems with the article, but there's a thing that's not really discussed that I'd like to know more about: how many of the people on the "creation" side of the Long Tail i.e. the movie makers, the musicians, the writers, are actually making a living out of finding their own small niche? I have to imagine there can't be that many.
And of course, don't forget "The Painting Goblin", in which you make an inescapeable, fully equipped basement home and lock one of your sims in there. Then you force them to get _extremely_ good at painting, such that one of their paintings can sell for thousands and comfortably support the rest of your sims family, who never have to work a day in their lives.
Sometimes I wonder how much time humanity as a species has collectively spent first inventing and then trying to solve the problem of "making a website".
Fiction is a tool used by humans to elicit, experience and process feelings under (mostly) safe circumstances. The details (such as how much the sea level would have to rise for this to be accurate) are not quite relevant; the point is to make the reader think about how they would feel if this sort of concern was just a commonplace consideration in their daily life. Is it not shocking? Uncomfortable? Sorta nihilism-inducing?
In summary: doesn't it make you want to act towards preventing this from ever being close to happening?
> Just wanted to follow up on my note from a few days ago in case it got buried under all of those e-mails about the flood. I’m concerned about how the Eastern Seaboard being swallowed by the Atlantic Ocean is going to affect our Q4 numbers, so I’d like to get your eyes on the latest earnings figures ASAP. On the bright side, the Asheville branch is just a five-minute drive from the beach now, so the all-hands meeting should be a lot more fun this year. Silver linings!
I... I don't think I'm psychologically prepared for tolerating the fauxptimism of corpospeak under the Slow Motion Apocalypse.
From what I can tell, the cause of this is that "number of papers published per unit of time" is the only metric institutions seem to care about when it comes to evaluating researchers' work.