Somewhat surprised that pcmag.com has not published an obituary. He was one of the load-bearing walls of the brand for what must’ve been two decades and certainly throughout the growth years.
Increasingly flake.nix is present in good repos. Zillions of packages are available. But yes, you will need to learn and sometimes File System Hierarchy assumptions need to be worked around. The rewards however, dominate the (few) inconveniences once you know your way around.
totally. In fact the current monopoly-coddling dispensation is antithetical to market economics, which clearly espouses real competition. It's kinda been coopted and hijacked.
The periscope style vector CRTs use in the arcade Battlezone were a claustrophobia and panic-inducing experience. Glowy unpixellated 3d, narrow field of vision. Unforgettably cool.
With a new agentic-lashup tearing across the internet every week, pointing the way to "gradient descent" software development, any purchasing manager worth their salt is going to ask some serious questions about their enormous SaaS bill before committing to another expensive long term contract. It follows that valuations must decline. Even if only because risks to moats have increased, but also because it makes sense to negotiate hard on pricing when there's fear in your counterparty.
Personally I find it extremely rare that I need to do this given Polars expressions are so comprehensive, including when.then.otherwise when all else fails.
because method chaining in Polars is much more composable and ergonomic than SQL once the pipeline gets complex which makes it superior in an exploratory "data wrangling" environment.
"revolutionary"? It just copied and pasted the decades-old R (previous "S") dataframe into Python, including all the paradigms (with worse ergonomics since it's not baked into the language).