I think it says more about America's self inflicted destruction. I agree with your analysis, so the only remaining option is for America to actively make itself worse than India
Companies already were shifting work to India. The offshore/onshore cycle has been going on since like the late 90s. The decently skilled ones would get an H1B and get relocated to the United States as a reward/incentive for good work, but in my experience there were plenty of American citizens that could do the same work that they did. Companies preferred H1B's because they were cheaper and because the company controlled their immigration status so they had huge power over the workers. But honestly in my field the work quality was subpar.
This is just companies crying that they can't have indentured servants anymore in the US and they have to deal with offshoring again.
The tradeoff always was to use higher level languages to increase development velocity, and then pay for it with larger and faster machines. Moore's law made it where the software engineer's time and labor was the expensive thing.
Moore's law has been dying for a decade, if not more, and as a result of this I am definitely seeing people focus more on languages that are closer to hardware. My concern is that management will, like always, not accept the tradeoffs that performance oriented languages sometimes require and will still expect incredible levels of productivity from developers. Especially with all of nonsense around using LLMs to "increase code writing speed"
I still use Python very heavily, but have been investigating Zig on the side (Rust didn't really scratch my itch) and I love the speed and performance, but you are absolutely taking a tradeoff when it comes to productivity. Things take longer to develop but once you finish developing it the performance is incredible.
I just don't think the industry is prepared to take the productivity hit, and they're fooling themselves, thinking there isn't a tradeoff.
but the UI into a cross-platform library (written in, say, Rust)
Many have tried, none have succeeded. You can go allllll the way back to Java's SWING, as well as Qt. This isn't something that "just do it in Rust" is going to succeed at.
As soon as Jack Welch and his cadre took over business and government in the United States, that signaled the beginning of the end. The ruling class of the United States only conceives of the future as the end of the current quarter.
Is rust like some sort of neoliberal intervention?
No it's just the same annoying people that bandwagoned Golang back in the 2010's now are bandwagoning Rust. There's just a group of people that chase trends and are insufferable.
But what is the communist line on rust
Honestly I hope there isn't one. It doesn't really make sense to me to have a political stance weigh in on a programming language.
“Our North Star is ‘1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code.’”
Ah, another deranged LinkedIn post boasting things that will never happen. It's a shame that Microsoft turned itself into an organization that selects for these kinds of people instead of actual technical talent.
“It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.. Just to clarify… Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI.
My team’s project is a research project. We are building tech to make migration from language to language possible. The intent of my post was to find like-minded engineers to join us on the next stage of this multi-year endeavor—not to set a new strategy for Windows 11+ or to imply that Rust is an endpoint.”
The first Trump administration placed sanctions on Venezuela, including its oil industry. Years of sanctions, insufficient investment and political turmoil have since turned what had been a top oil-producing country with vast deposits into one that industry representatives have called a junkyard.
They keep getting away with it. A country wants more of the share of the proceeds for oil sales, colonial occupation says no, they get thrown out, then they use international finance to wreck the country. Then, they come in back in to loot it after the collapse
People like playing around and exploring. As long as they're having fun and understand that it's for fun, then by all means.
I ran Ubuntu when it was first released (oh God I'm old) and it's fine. It has some annoying things that I don't like (unattended upgrades, why are you shit) but it's fine. I just want to enjoy being on the computer, playing my games on Steam on Linux and just going on with my life. I don't need to run Gentoo. I don't need that kind of excitement
I think it says more about America's self inflicted destruction. I agree with your analysis, so the only remaining option is for America to actively make itself worse than India