Meta illegally scraped 80TB of data from Anna's archive, Libgen, Zlib etc. I'm sure other tech giants did too. Without paying them a cent, costing these projects $$$ in bandwidth/hosting etc.
when I hear people complain about these projects it just sounds like hypocrisy.
I've always liked powerlevel10k, or its equivalent tide for fish shell, which I much prefer over bash/zsh. Its fast, async, has everything you need, and is much easier to configure.
I've always wondered why someone doesn't just bundle a nice looking shell prompt with common nerd fonts and make it the default in a single package you can install.
Most websites send massive amounts of telemetry data which is never mentioned but somehow MS doing this for Windows/Edge etc, which they fully disclose, always is.
Vim style keybindings and navigation is massively overhyped as is vim itself.
Cue endless debates about how Vim is the best ever ...... I'm sick and tired of everyone telling me that their neovim setup with a tiling window manager with million customized rc files is somehow better than vscode with a mouse (which mind you still has plenty of keyboard shortcuts) with sane windows. /rant
There's a class of fanboys who will be telling you about that because they're Really Excited that they got it Just How They Wanted It.
Most of us think "we like it, some people don't, great if it's an option, probably shouldn't be the only option anywhere else."
The one-upmanship (over VSCode in your case but all editor wars get a dishonourable mention) is bullshit but, like, random strangers on the internet tell people with crippling depression "hey, you should do <thing>, it fixed -my- depression" so I think you have to just accept that "when something works really well for a human, sometimes they get overexcited and start trying to turn the something into a silver bullet that it isn't" is something that will always happen.
Note: The people doing the arseholish one-upmanship are not in any way forgiven by this, and the "everyone telling you" that you describe would aggravate me as well, but as with the Rust Evangelism Strike Force, you just have to nod and smile (and sometimes point and laugh) at the zealots and look at the technology for yourself.
Note 2: I use the original 1970 Bill Joy vi. Other people I know use VSCode. 'better' is relative, and what works best for any given person/project varies wildly - everything before this note is about the dynamics of people discussing such choices.
the only part I question is the 'regardless of family wealth'. This is purely 1st world and even here for the middle class and above only. Sure, poor countries are improving, but there's no guarantee, not with increasing wealth inequality, climate change etc, that this kind of tech will ever reach most people.
If this is public I can only imagine what Google has internally. Does DeepMind compete in this space or is it fundamentally different than a llm like Bard?
With their massive codebase and already deep investment in AI/ML, I'm pretty sure Google and likely MS already have the ability to do massive refactoring, validate it using tests, reiterate, train, rinse and repeat.
Nodejs solved all this years ago, now we have super fast shared package managers like pnpm, yarn etc, not to mention deno etc, why can't other languages adopt the same system?
I assume that it is harder for Rust, because it needs to deal with `features`, with cross-compilation, with the developer using `nightly` for some projects, `stable` for others, pinned versions for yet others, etc.
Node supports circular dependencies and arbitrary pre/post-install scripts, which are both disasters for downstream packaging. Node is not a model here.
The CAS that gets symlinked into vendorized directories à la pnpm is the Nix model, which is indeed an improvement that other package managers which support vendorization should incorporate.
the final book has the most infuriating, idiotic and worst character I've read in scifi. She repeatedly makes the worst possible choice, literally is responsible first for humanity being enslaved and then being wiped out, before making sure the entire bloody universe is wiped out, and at each stage is not only forgiven, but never questioned, celebrated by everyone else, and given even more power.
when I hear people complain about these projects it just sounds like hypocrisy.