All modern cars are either bloated/proprietery/unneccessarily complex. Pretty sure walking can do it all
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They kind of are though... Took a lot of effort to find a recent car to replace one involved in an accident.
From built to fail American and European cars, to useless and distracting touchscreen controls, bloated subscription models for remote start that could be a button on the car keys and other "extras", failing CVTs that are expensive to replace (designed with no reparability like many parts nowadays), literally oil on the timing rubber belts that implode the engine after a few years if you delay expensive maintenance, etc.
Too many issues to list. Even the car we found with a traditional automatic transmission and physical buttons (some Mazda) without breaking the bank has data privacy issues if you don't disconnect the antenna that sells your driving habits to insurance companies to raise your premiums (I believe they or some other Japanese company had an issue that revealed the location data as well).
I'm convinced most cars peaked in the 90s and 2000s. You can add an after market stereo with android auto or apple carplay to optionally connect your phone (if you want) and attach a backup camera. Everything else seems to be made to extract the most amount of money from you due to the failed project north Americans are forced to buy into have a job.
Tldr: fuck cars somewhat.
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Pretty sure C and assembly can do it all
Just compile C to (a third language)
Also, yes, you could accomplish everything with those two languages. Hell, you don't even need C. But for things where the relatively low level control of C isn't necessary, why shouldn't we use something that let's us focus on domain logic instead of preventing buffer overruns every few lines?
Totally agree.
Also rolling your own data structures all the time isn't much fun.
I think Casey Muratori argues it's because even the things where it isn't necessary may be built upon by another project, whether it's a library or service, and the loses compound.
Yeah, if you have the luxury of long enough coding time and infinite working memory set ^[i.e. in your brain, so that you can keep all considerations of your whole project in your mind at a time], then it would be a objectively superior practice to make your project without including other libraries.
If on top of that, you also have inculcated all cumulative knowledge and mathematical insights that go into the design of an optimising compiler, then you want to be writing in Assembly, separately for each processor family.
Also, you can arguable do better with FPGAs and even better with ASICs (which will end up having a lower marginal cost than an FPGA based solution). And I might be getting ahead of myself here, but you can also draw all the layer masks yourself to get maximum control over the relative capabilities of each transistor printed on the silicon.
Sadly you can't go further than that without either requiring superpowers that would let you precisely generate UV laser beams from your fingernails/eyes/hair/whatever or going backwards in the technology progression to make transistors by hand, which would just end up with lower performing, high energy products.
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I find the unnecessarily complex argument a little odd. Third party ecosystems and individual libraries can be unnecessarily complex, especially when they're heavily opinionated. But I've performance never encountered a language I found "unnecessarily" complex. Do you have a few examples and what in particular you consider unnecessarily complex?
Just because we can do everything in C and Assembly doesn't mean it is a good idea or that we should.
Fuck assembly! Real programmers etch their programs into the board.
Fuck board etching! Real programmers use butterflies.
Your opinion is unpopular, because it is wrong.
No normal person would think of C when told to imagine a language that is not bloated and not unnecessarily complex.
I'd say it's necessarily complex for the things it is used for and neither bloated nor complex when used for purposes it was used for back in the C days.
But then again, I don't consider myself "normal".
If all you have is a stone, every tool starts to look like a hammer.
Replace C with lisp and you're 100% correct. Even then Rust is better than lisp IMO.