Microsoft is surely trying hard to get rid of its past. And they are doing it well. What I wish they would also do is that they would provide a minimal OS as a dev platform.
GNU/Linux did not take over mobile. Google did. Linux was a tool but what really sold it to customers were the services and convenience.
That could have been done with FreeBSD or any other UNIX or nonUNIX clone.
People like you are toxic. But I can't blame you as you have been probably brainwashed in your 3rd world leftist oriented country.
Tech people fail to understand that what they do is in some way always connected to "real people's problems and needs". Yes you might be paid to solve abstract compsci problems but they do not directly turn into $$$. You create a new filesystem,programming language or a new operating system but none of it is technically needed.. Most of the people do not buy products because of their technical qualities. Most of the people buy powerful computers because they want to play games. Managers and company owners buy powerful servers to be able to serve content faster. But these servers and useful software does not directly contribute to their revenue. It's the content and its quality. It does not matter how good is your software if it can't solve people's problems. Because most of the people are not programmers,scientists etc
Even Beam really ?...another one that received an insane amount of money in funding. There IS virtually nothing that prevents mri from becoming at least as fast as v8.
Sorry but everything is relative and we could have just stick with JVM and Java as it's super performant and you have enough developers to choose from.
Picking elixir over ruby is like picking a katana when you want machete.
Wow are you seriously comparing mri with jvm that receivee billions of dollars and significant manpower investments and is fundamentally different from.mri?
I do not want to discourage you but these companies hardly solve "real problems". Yes they might be challenging and more prestigious but you will probably end up just working on better ads targeting.
I mean I do not want to underestimate your skills and intellect but look at what happened to Geohot and I believe he is above your average MIT/Stanford graduate
I wonder if there has been a research that tried to incorporate Hangul (aka the best writing system on earth) to Japanese/CHinese lang...just for pragmatic reasons
Why do you think it's an idiotic assertion ? Do you seriously think that the world needs countless of developers working on next big CRUD app ? Or countless of meaningless metrics and reports ? I do not think so. It's a work for sure but it's a meaningless work.
Your gut reaction is correct albeit I think it makes sense to keep these people but slash their salaries. It takes a lot of time to train cheap workforce. Because well...it's a cheap workforce. You either brainwash them into believing that they are working on something great or sooner or later they realize that job hopping will bring them more money (pretty much what happens in every cheap offshore location).
These people can still do great job. Perhaps it's not worth the 150k you are paying them but if you could legally slash it to 60k...then...does it make sense to hire some clueless droids in some sweatshop in India ?
These costs are banal compared to what your usual medium to large enterprise is paying in bonuses,benefits and other.
I am coming from Europe and always admired capitalist systems but I think the americans and others are probably stressing it too much.
I have experienced large US corporations firing people that had 2-3 years till retirement, people that spent 30years with company and have been replaced with cheap offshore resources.
I think companies could keep these employees but incrementally decreasing their salaries and working hours. They could still earn more (overtime) but I would dynamically adjust the salaries.
I mean anyway...95% people are just slacking at their jobs
Most of the people are mediocre. Just because they work in hyped companies (Uber,Google,Facebook whatever) does not mean they are the top 10%.
And even being in top 10% does not directly translate into being able to create an extraordinary product.
There are hundreds of thousands talented people that did not buy into hype or are not too ambitious to even attempt the amazingly tiring interviews at these companies.
I think SF is a bubble and very unhealthy to the whole IT industry. It basically raises the costs for everyone.
It makes no sense to hire a person in SF for much more (and he will not really benefit from it) just because you compete with multi billions dollar businesses that can cut costs somewhere else.
At some point people do not want to change the world with next Instagram. They just want to live nicely.