Solid too. But yes Svelte seems to have been the current thing for a few years now.

> What will we have in 20 years?

Whatever it is, I sincerely hope that it is not driven by Python, and instead we have a more accessible language.

Say what you will about Python, but it is a total pain in the arse to work with. The 2.x legacy still casts a long shadow (in terms of online guides, unmaintained libs etc), anaconda, pip, easy install, strings/unicode, type hints (or not), unreadable & unmaintainable list comprehensions etc etc etc. What a dumpster fire, and a truly hateful language.

Here is hoping that some other language takes over. I have my personal take, but I won't let that ruin the rant :)

If you distribute the state over ALL your services and need 100% data consistency you’re holding it wrong

People keep regurgitating this “you aint going to be google” mantra but I worked there and in reality generic microservice stack is in a totally different league of complexity and sophistication of what google and co have. This argument is basically reductio ad absurdum

I guess people learn from history, and Polish history teaches sad lesson that Poland seems to be a good candidate for another WWII experience where there are no victorious... To Polish politicians I would have one thing to say, send your kids to fight and do not push whole country to the war nobody wants.

I'm a php & mysql -dev and still can't understand these websockets. What if I have a cron job that sends messages to this websocket server and it pushes them to web-app (vue front, added to home screen on mobile phone, not an installed app) push notification. How this can be done ? and how can the server even keep up with the websocket connections to thousands of clients ? does the websocket re-open if user restarts their phone?

As others have said, I think the value for the Kindle is pretty damn high.

* Works in lots and lots of countries

* Great iOS and Android apps to supplement reading on Eink

* Well-priced devices, even if you pay to remove ads, that offer years and years of software support and are extremely durable/reliable

* Great hacking community and ability to use things like DeDRM to bring your purchases to other devices

* Insanely robust library that is far more consistent than other services.

* Ability to easily side-load other content via the Send to Kindle feature

* Audible integration/sync/discounts

If you prefer Kobo, that’s fine. But I’ve always seen it as the second-rate alternative owned by the second-rate Amazon (Rakuten). If I’m going to get tied into any ecosystem, I’d prefer for it to be the biggest/most active. But that’s just me.

Edit: formatting

Kobo appears to be an inferior device on most accounts. Both of my Kobo readers have had glitches, required reboots, and at times had a suspiciously low battery life. The first even just stopped working all of a sudden. But all of it was worth it knowing I wouldn't have to support Amazon's walled garden. Now it's mostly down to "do you support Amazon?", and I'm still not sure if I want a Kindle. I'll keep my Kobo H2O until it dies of old age, then we'll see.

At first glance it looks pretty nice. I wonder why it hasn't gotten more attention? Or did I just miss it?