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The thing that resonated the most with me was the idea that slow processors need to focus on strategic thinking. I am a 60 year old and now retired software developer. I keep myself busy by actively continuing to code every day. I definitely have experienced a slowing of thinking in the last ten years. I have read that this could be because I have more information to sift and sort but being honest with myself, the machinery is not as well tuned as it once was.
I am fine with all this. I love coding and I doubt I will ever stop doing it for pleasure. I have had to become more methodical and intentional with my time on the laptop but reflecting on this piece, being more strategic would be a wise thing for me to contemplate on.
It was the books in my Dad's library that first got me to read for pleasure. I remember him suggesting The Lord of the Rings but it would be several years before I read it. 50 years later I can't actually remember what I read first but over the course of my late childhood, the one that sticks out the most is:
The Magus by John Fowles
I was maybe 14 at the time. You just never know because kids are weird.
If you look at sports, it used to be that people looked at basic stats for hiring. Then came the age of money-ball where people started looking at group success. Turns out that those people are often quite valuable even though their metrics might not be as sexy.
Like other posters, I read the whole thing and couldn't think of a reason for this device. I have experienced the many people cell issue but I am old enough to remember a time before cell phones at concerts.
This seems very much like a solution in search of a problem.
Safety guys always ruin the fun. I was in the Marine Corps and every time we got to test some new piece of gear the safety officer was like "No, you can't live fire it off the flight deck of the ship" or "No, not here, that village is down wind of the dust you will kick up when it goes off." No, that has a kill distance of 6 miles, you have to fire it into a hill." Blah, blah, blah.
Everything is free now
That's what they say
Everything I ever done
Gonna give it away
Someone hit the big score
They figured it out
That we're gonna do it anyway
Even if it doesn't pay
I did the same thing and it was also a great learning aid. Now I run my own my own set of plugins but this got me past that initial learning curve. I think it says something that it finally happened to me after 4 decades of software development.
Microsoft has a long history of fracturing programming language markets. It's not so much that it is a bad idea, more that it divides an already healthy market. There is MicroPython, Arduino, and Node-RED not to mention all of the C/C++ based systems out there: mBed, Zephyr, and RIOT OS. Another addition is not helpful.
I don't want to get grabbed on a side street and beaten but... Rust is language designed to solve a process problem (bad buggy code) with a straitjacket language approach. It is pedantic to the point of being unreadable and in it's own problem domain (system, embedded and up) has been ticking the wrong boxes.
Zig is substantially better yet I think a better language is still around the corner. Having said that, you absolutely can't go wrong mastering C. Zig wraps C in a way that doesn't choke you on configuration issues. Zig's out-of-the-box support for many target's is a savvy decision too.
However, both Zig and Rust make some of the same errors so I will put my plea here for future language developers. How you work with Threads, Async, Interrupts are all implementation details. Please don't make them part of the language. A good Function type is sufficient to make elegant solutions that do not require language support.