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All the other gubbins

A bit of a rant.

Bleeding money to boost internal memory and storage is one thing. Other things are external devices, like bubs, monitors, backup storage, cameras, cables, audio interfaces. To upgrade an old (late 2012, 16G, 1TB) system, like mine, requires besides a small forand new gear that funnels its way through tiny lesions in the surface of a thing which is more a sleek art object than a computing utility. The expense, when you add it up, is , for the sake of, aextraordinary. When you factor in struggling with flaws that persist in ill-specified operating systems for the best part of a decade, and maybe another decade, losing sleep, rag, and data, you feel like weighing things up. Do I need a neural engine? Is that what we used to call an array processor? Am I made of money?

Programming languages are a bit more than coding languages

What goes on in your head when you are writing code, in whatever language, should be thinking straight about what code to write down.

It is a massive irrelevance, mere noise, (sometimes tiresome) what syntax you have to express the code in.

In my experience, one starts with wishful and vague thinking, and it is only when the code doesn't behave as expected,

in debugging, that forensic, rigorous thinking gets involved. You're lucky if it is just a crash. the guy who is unlucky is the one

who has to deal with downstream crashes, or mysterious misbehaviours at a higher level.

It may not be a popular idea, but after several decades as a programmer, I'm convinced that mastering exact ways of writing

specifications at various levels that are consistent with each other is actually programming. These things can actually be written down.

Fiddling about with whitespace or suchlike noise isn't programming, just coding.

(Never even seen a rust program. Maybe rust is actually The Solution?)