No, the problem is that people have simply demonized soda. HFCS in particular. It's not about sugar, it never has been. An exception for fruit juice makes this obvious. It's the "naturalistic fallacy" in action.
You're joking right? Sure, his opinions are stupid but I invite you to open google maps and scroll over to the body of water between the US and Mexico.
Why do you feel a need to be able to claim that something is "written in Lua" or "Python" when it's using native libraries? Many games are using a mix of languages these days. There's no shame in it and I didn't imply there is.
People get very confused over this thinking that "Python is very fast at number crunching" because of things like numpy which is written partly in C to achieve that performance.
This is like saying Rust isn’t a real language because it relies on LLVM which is written with C/CPP.
That's entirely different - I'm not talking about the interpreter or compiler. Just the runtime code.
That's not what I'm talking about. Things like "numpy" which are actually written with a fair amount of C for performance. Or pandas which uses Cython to trans-pile Python to C to compile.
Cobol developers are typically developers who weren't good enough to learn other languages. Their computing knowledge is often quite limited to their mainframe. I've never met one who was competent in anything else.
If AI actually made people faster and more productive, they could simply set faster timelines and people would use the tools.
I want to work with your team. I work with a sysadmin who, rather than using the up-arrow, will scroll up in his terminal to copy / paste the last command he ran. Even if that command was just "ls -l".
It's maddening to watch and horribly inefficient. But he's always done it that way.
Many people simply do not seek a faster way of doing things.
Like many "rules" of programming it's actually more of a "guideline". You can write pages defining the rule and all of the scenarios but it's wasted effort IMO. Follow the "role" reasonably and discuss it during code review if it seems like something should be refactored.
I've driven across France - it's not uncommon. I've also taken the train, it's much more expensive. In the US people fly because it's too big. Coast to coast is 4-5 hours by air.
It's not about travel efficiency, it's about distance in general. People are more knowledgeable about areas near them. People on the West Coast usa don't know about the East Coast as much.
Your argument depends on people being fundamentally different across the world, and they're not. It's racist.
Sugar is literally 50% fructose.