I'd love to find more info on this but from what I can find it seems to be making webpages that look like those product, and seemingly can "run python" or "emulate a game" but writing something that, based on all of GitHub, can approximate an iPhone or emulator in javscript/css/HTML is very very very different than writing an OS.
That's some weirdest complain, sounds like standing in a fully stocked kitchen and muttering there's nothing to eat. You're using the pinnacle of malleable apps, why don't you just rebind the keys you don't like?
I think I broadly agree with this. I am super frustrated that everythign always wants me to search for things. As an example Finders default search while looking at a folder is the whole machine instead of a filter in the directory you are viewing in seems totally insane to me. It's almost like they don't want me to know where my files are.
I can understand that it's a result, to a degree of cloud services and peoples primary mode swapping to opening and app and opening recents or searching instead of opening a file to open an app but it does mean that you're at the mercy of what I experience as some pretty crap search algorithms that don't seem to want you to find the information you're looking for. I keep encountering searches that rank fuzzy matches over exact matches or aren't stable as you continue to complete the same word and I just don't understand how that's acceptable after being pointed out if search is what I'm supposed to be using.
> It's almost like they don't want me to know where my files are.
I think this might actually be true in some cases.
Especially where companies want your files on their cloud servers. It's better for them if you don't think about what's stored locally or remotely. It's better for them if you don't think at all and just ask them for whatever you want and let them decide what to show you or keep hidden from you. It's easier for them to get metrics on what you're doing if you type it out explicitly in a search box than it is for them to track you as you browse through a hierarchy you designed to get to what you want. You're supposed to feel increasingly helpless and dependent on them.
A huge amount of important existing software is written in C. If the code is already written or needs to inter-operate with other pieces in many languages I typically write C. There are a also lot of things that can be easier in C because that modern safer languages would stop you from doing foot shooting things that C won't it's quicker sometimes to write or prototype in C.
> If not: why not, and what do you use instead?
A not insignificant part of my career has been fixing bugs in C code that's been around forever. It's almost always the same class of dumb bugs that wouldn't exist in other languages. This is not anecdata the research agrees. No new projects should be started in C there are better tools.
I really dislike reading website that take over half the screen and make me read off to the side like this. I can fix it by zooming in but I don't understand why they thought making the navigation take up that much of the screen or not be collapsable was a good move.
I think most is doing a lot of work there. No one I know who games or does CAD is mining crypto because it's in no way worth it and I imagine there's nothing but anecdata for your statment either.
