Apparently the JS name was selected and announced in partnership with Sun from the very beginning, and Sun had the copyright over both Java and JapaScript up until the acquisition by Oracle. I had no idea, but that makes perfect sense.
I'm not even saying that Google's data collection is innocuous. I'm just saying that this post is incorrect in its claim that Google is letting Gemini access your apps even if you try to turn that access off. Just because Google does some nefarious things doesn't mean you can't think critically about actual specific actions they take.
The post doesn't say "imperative", it just differentiates between defining pipeline steps and defining the logic within a step.
...also, TCL? I haven't used it for ops, but my memory of tcl/tk is extremely negative.
...also also: a core part of a build, CI, or, CD pipeline is almost always invoking binaries to run a command. That's why shell scripts are so ubiquitous in pipeline-logic: invoking binaries is what they're for. And it's very difficult to do that a declarative way: Make comes close, but it's difficult to track any side-effects that aren't "update these files", and a huge amount of CI/CD is no longer just "update a file".
What the announcement is saying is: previously, if you wanted Gemini to have access to text and chat apps, you also needed to enable Gemini Apps Activity, i.e. the feature that saves all Gemini interactions to the cloud. Now, the settings to enable or disable app access from history tracking are fully separate, so you can have app access enabled (if you want) even if the Apps Activity feature is disabled.
That doesn't have anything to do with the announcement. What the announcement is saying is: previously, if you wanted Gemini to have access to text and chat apps, you also needed to enable Gemini Apps Activity, i.e. the feature that saves all Gemini interactions to the cloud. Now, the settings to enable or disable app access from history tracking are fully separate, so you can have app access enabled (if you want) even if the Apps Activity feature is disabled.
Yeah, I understand that Option and Maybe aren't new, but they've only recently become popular. IIRC several of the studies use Java, which is certainly safer than C++ and is technically statically typed, but in my opinion doesn't do much to help ensure correctness compared to Rust, Swift, Kotlin, etc.
I don't know; I haven't caught up on the research over the past decade. But it's worth noting that this body of evidence is from before the surge in popularity of strongly typed languages such as Swift, Rust, and TypeScript. In particular, mainstream "statically typed" languages still had null values rather than Option or Maybe.
Partly because it's from 2014, so the modern static typing renaissance was barely starting (TypeScript was only two years old; Rust hadn't hit 1.0; Swift was mere months old). And partly because true evidence-based software research is very difficult (how can you possibly measure the impact of a programming language on a large-scale project without having different teams write the same project in different languages?) and it's rarely even attempted.
No, because the thing they are naming is "The Github Dictionary"; they're not applying scare-quotes to the word "dictionary" implying that what they've written is not really a "dictionary".
Apparently the JS name was selected and announced in partnership with Sun from the very beginning, and Sun had the copyright over both Java and JapaScript up until the acquisition by Oracle. I had no idea, but that makes perfect sense.