I have the utmost respect for Casey, but his disdain for Stroustrup is unfounded. The fact of the matter is C++ occupied a niche in the right place and at the right time, and it grew from there. Many mistakes have been made, but Stroustrup is in no way personally responsible for all of them and I don't think Stroustrup is a bad programmer (something I've heard Casey say in some of his videos). You can argue that the committee route is not the best, but C++ is here to stay and by some metrics adoption is actually growing.
I'm doing a degree (part-time) in Mathematics and Physics to get away from AI crap and challenge myself now in my early 30's. The client I work for now has deemed us "AI first"... Even though the back-end work and optimizations that I do are not that impacted I'm just fed up with colleagues that are not programmers (or are programmers that are not on my level) to tell me how to do stuff with Claude or GPT. It's all so tiresome.
Citing blitz.bg... That's like citing a soiled piece of toilet paper found in a public bathroom.
We can all cherry pick "facts", but history requires context. Your replies are all in bad faith. I'm done with this "discussion". To future readers - beware! This is how actual misinformation and disinformation works.
I don't know if you're willfully ignorant or actively spreading misinformation, but the USSR seized Bulgaria's gold reserves after the war and the following coup. They also seized the national archives, which are still not returned to this day. Everything you tout as being "given" by USSR was paid with Bulgaria's own funds!
I really don't understand (French) communists (if you are in fact French, assuming from your bio) such as yourself spouting nonsense. You have all the information and experience of people who have lived under such a regime or in the fallout of one, and yet you keep talking bullshit. You have no idea what it was like to live under such a regime. This left-wing wave that's festering in the Western world should've never been allowed to happen. If people such as yourself actually paid attention to what really happened to every country in the East, all of us in Europe would've been in a much better state nowadays...
Glagolitic was created by Cyril and Methodius which was the precursor for Cyrillic. Whether they were Greek or Bulgarian is still in contention, but that doesn't matter. What matters is that Cyrillic itself was created later by students of theirs in Bulgaria at the Preslav Literary School.
On the political aspect Russia has always hated the fact that small Bulgaria gave them their alphabet/culture and has used it's influence to bitch, moan and subjugate ever since. Most recent rage bait is with bullshit like saying that it's actually from (the country now known as) North Macedonia.
It's sad to see that the sane opinion is so heavily downvoted.
LSP as a protocol is fine, but the actual technical implementation of JSON RPC is braindead. Only web devs that don't know anything about native code could devise such an abomination. What happened to plugins and dll's?
I love C++ for the power it gives me, but boy do I hate reading C++ code. I know most of these things are for historical reasons and/or done because of parser compatibilities etc. but it's still a pain.
Two intelligence assets talking to each other. Both have quite similar backgrounds with dubious credentials. A history of lying and obfuscation. I wouldn't trust anything Fridman or Durov say.
Cyril and Methodius didn't create Cyrillic. That's a very common misconception. They created the Glagolitic[1] alphabet which was a precursor script. Cyrillic was developed later by their students and other scholars in the Preslav Literary School[2]. They named it Cyrillic to honour the brothers, but the brothers themselves didn't create Cyrillic.
EDIT: Sorry, I misread what you wrote. It's late and it's been a long day. You weren't saying the brothers created Cyrillic. As for whether they were Greek/Bulgarian I cannot say. I've read different opinions on that throughout the years. Definitely Byzantine, but anything else I cannot say.
Your snark comment is out of place since if you knew something about Cyrillic you'll know that most letters have 1:1 mapping with their Greek counterparts. And since Bulgarian language does use Cyrillic the jump to Greek is quite short. You could argue that there's a bigger difference in pronunciation of letters between English, German and French which all use the Latin alphabet than between Cyrillic and Greek.
I find these quite interesting and I would be very surprised if these were not the actual common way of writing in cursive learned in school?
When I was growing up in Bulgaria my first 7 (I would write the 7 crossed by default for example, the Z as well) grades were in a school where we learned German (and Russian as a secondary foreign language) and I remember distinctly handwriting practice in German using more or less the same ways outlined in this article. Is this way of writing cursive not common in the US/UK?
Reading Greek is easy for _most_ Bulgarians (inventors of Cyrillic if you didn't know that) as you can imagine. Them being a geographical neighbor and the close historical ties etc.
I'd say the manner in which you use the time is as important as the habit itself. It's not "practice makes perfect", but "perfect practice makes perfect" etc.