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  • Speaking primarily as a Go developer, what I see is companies cutting costs, and Java is battle-tested and there’s a tonne of talent out there who know the language. If Java in your area already pays more, I’d say you’ve already got your answer.

    Besides which, if Go truly does eat the Java world in the next couple of years (it won’t), the language is still young enough for you to pick it up fairly quickly. Especially with the help of AI.









  • In the UK at least there’s a persistent cost-of-living battle being fought, so we’re not spending as much as we were, and large game production has reached a tipping point where the number of purchasers aren’t growing but costs are increasing, so: studios contract; or games are taking longer to make; or games are made with a smaller scope. So basically, there’s less to upgrade your console for.

    I mean, for me personally, everytime I think of upgrading from a Series S I find it hard to justify because most games run quite well.


  • I worked with Perl for years, and I don’t recommend it for a beginner. There are just too many idiosyncrasies that belong specifically to the language that you’d be better off with Python for learning the basics.

    I’m also not really sold on that book, which from the code samples looks really old. I’d recommend two books: Modern Perl and Perl Best Practices.

    Edit: I’d also recommend working in Go but potentially the way i/o intersects with interfaces makes it a bit more challenging.












  • Sony is also encountering similar issues in terms of the cost of games being unsustainable and Moore’s Law kicking in. The difference is that they’re making games that move consoles and Microsoft just aren’t.

    At this point, I don’t know what strategy Microsoft has at this point. If you say “Xbox everywhere”, what does Xbox even mean any more for the enthusiast? I don’t think Xbox is done, but if they were looking to be HBO before, they are now going for the Netflix approach - high quantity content, mediocre product - and possibly alienate the existing audience they have.

    I say this as an Xbox Series S owner, I’m happy with my purchase, but as a consumer I don’t think I’ll be upgrading my console to anything Microsoft ship any time soon.