I do believe there is value in understanding the fundamentals of how the computer executes code by learning C as it is a nice balance without going to the level of Assembly. I don’t think I would be as good of a programmer as I am today without having learnt C as my first language but the way the school teaches it is important.

That said, that’s in the context of a role of a software engineer with a CS degree, if you’re just a regular developer writing web apps or plan on only ever using frameworks then yea, you probably don’t need that kind of knowledge. Even then, I’d argue knowing these details would help you resolve issues with the framework if you ever encounter them.

It doesn’t necessarily mean you have to use C to make products but it certainly is useful to get a feel of how it works.

Yea I wasn’t a fan of it initially coming from C++ and C# but it is growing on me. There’s a lot of neat concepts. I just wish it’d allow me to put curly braces on the next line.

The JVM isn’t free. It was a simple data collection device that interfaces with a sensor which ideally doesn’t need maintenance as long as possible. Something light written in C is more than enough.

Battery life is a reason. I’ve had clients come to me complaining their solution from another vendor didn’t last very long. Turns out it was running Java on an embedded device.

I found SourceTree to be especially bad at this. For the inexperienced, I think Fork is a lot better. It also helps that you can inspect the commands that were executed by it.

Had the same shit happen to me in college too. College is one hell of a time…

I’m not really understanding, what makes the US different in this regard?

Well the same organization has been used to capture political opponents previously.

Not to detract from your point but indigenous Singaporeans are of Malay descent whereas the guy here is of Chinese descent.

Is this specific to some region? I’m Singaporean and I don’t see this kind of view here. If anything, there’s quite a bit of casual racism towards white people here.

Samsung is slowly moving some production from China though. For instance, my phone is manufactured in Vietnam instead.

Lenovo has lost all sense of reputation for me after the whole superfish fiasco.

Haven’t dabbled with them yet but I’ve heard of Avalonia and Compose.

I’m not too familiar with slinr or fybe but DearImGui seems like an odd one out here.

Hasn’t stopped the banks from doing it either way. It’s frustrating when shops end up using bank-specific protocols that force you to use the bank app to pay rather than the country standardised protocol.

E.g. Having to use DBS’s shitty app to pay because shops use their protocol instead of the nation-wide PayNow standard which works with GPay.

And it’s so good that Kotlin adopted them too in their journey to fix Java.

Samsung has let you swap the back and menu keys for years.

Not OP but it’s possible if you stay in the north like CCK or Sembawang and need to travel to Changi Business Park for work.

Well not exactly the entire country, pretty sure people who need to gedong would have a lot to say about that. But most places? Yea definitely. I do have friends who stay in Punggol that don’t enjoy squeezing in the trains to head to Buona for work though.

Funny you list both C# and Typescript because the lead architect of C# also worked on Typescript.