[MichaelCrawford]

Everyone is saying that Javascript is the world's most popular language, or at least soon will be.

That saddens me as I do not care for it at all. It's not like I can't learn how to code in JS, but to do so I find quite unrewarding.

I don't see 3D printing being commercially interesting for at least another few years. For anything you really seriously want a custom-made part for, you'd want a metal part made by an experienced machinist with a CNC mill. I expect 3D printers will get there someday but not soon.

Drones, quite likely there are many uses for them other than snapping pictures of white house lawn.

Bitcoin, maybe. In the long run, definitely. There is a specific limit to how many bitcoins can ever be mined. At the same time, more merchants are accepting them. Without a doubt, the dollar price of a coin will increase. I do not know yet - I haven't really checked - whether i'd expect bitcoin to do better than what I could do by investing in stocks, bonds or commodities, but in the long run I expect they would do better.

[yen223]

Unfortunately Javascript will be the world's most popular language for a long time, until the web moves away from browsers. Which could actually happen within our lifetime, given the rise of mobile.

[MichaelCrawford]

I should be clear that I am not by any means a language zealot. There's lots of people who like Javascript, and that's just fine with me.

For reasons I'll go into later, I just became a vegan. I've done it before, I know how to be a vegan and be happy with my diet. Tempeh is popular among vegans, but I regard is as foul, I'd rather drink sewage, but I'm completely cool with someone else eating all the tempeh.

What I like is to stress over cache misses.