> but Apple's store takes 30% of everything once you pass one million/year

So it's much better to earn 999k instead of 1.1 million...

340k of memory quote is a myth

Do you have links to false claims about Nim?

I don't and to be fair, from what I recall, these were dropped from the V website as soon as the Nim community challenged them.

Nothing was dropped: https://vlang.io/compare

This can be verified via web archive.

This has been the only mention of Nim.

What claims are false?

You make very big accusations ("a lot of false claims about itself but also other existing programming languages", "a true example of how far pushing false promises and lies can get you and it makes me a bit sad about the world"), and yet you can't provide examples of such claims and lies.

I think they meant V-lang is making false claims about itself.

I meant both V-lang making false claims about itself and making false claims about Nim.

Please get specific - not sure what you're talking about. I've only ever seen other folks coming in and attacking V really quite baselessly.

The specifics were discussed in the Nim forum: https://forum.nim-lang.org/t/4758

or Gmail for the last 10 years

nothing weird about HN

it's perfect

I've always found the indentation being done by a gif kind of weird. But hey, it works.

it's because it was created like this 15 years ago, and if it ain't broke, don't fix it

I wish every website followed this rule

Perhaps all countries should adopt 0% corporate tax then, if it's so beneficial.

You joke, but some types of taxes are objectively worse than others. An ideal tax would have to generate sufficient revenue, be non-distortionary, inexpensive, and fair.

We can argue about what's "fair" all day, but "inexpensive" is more objective: some taxes hamper more economic activity than others. A $1 tax on a stock trade will reduce exactly $1 of economic activity. It's so expensive, it's basically pointless. A land value tax, on the other land, is almost free. (And in some cases, negative!)

Most taxes fall somewhere between these two extremes, but corporate income taxes are one of the most expensive, which is why economists aren't big fans of them.

That would probably level the playing field between small companies and big companies, TBH.

M1 macbooks are amazing, and you are clearly very biased.

In fact, the M1 hype squad is 'clearly very biased' than I am. 'It is faster than everything I've seen on a laptop without a fan' and 'runs (some but only approved) iOS apps' and that is it.

If the software does not run, requires a very involved workaround or is unstable enough to prevent someone doing their work, then all of the above is useless.

Evaluation of new shiny toys comes with a for and against. Let me be clear: going all in on an entirely new product with early 1.0 software is a risk that can't be ignored and it was hidden by most and not shown on November 2020 by the fanatics.

My question still remains unanswered: Anything other reason as to why I should buy a M1 Macbook NOW rather than waiting for M1X/M2 instead?

Companies exist to make money.

Wait, older versions of ST were NOT rendered by GPU?

No, previous versions rendered purely on the CPU. We did use the GPU on macOS to draw to the window itself, but actually rendering the frames was still done on the CPU.

Unless you're doing something graphically intensive you don't need a GPU at lower resolutions. At higher resolutions (or with much slower CPUs) you do need a GPU to keep up though.

I'm still using Sublime Text 2 on macOS Mojave and sometimes, but not always, if I take a screenshot of it, the text gets captured without syntax highlighting despite being highlighted on screen. So it's definitely doing some graphical shenanigans to render text as fast as it does.

hasn't like 99% of it been mined already?

competition from miners to accept fees will still exist