Writing the plugin seems to be a hard problem. It’s not clear from the link if there are non trivial plugins written for real formats, not toy not POC but a for reals plugins

All that is true and the spin I focus on is can Microsoft have implemented it such that they have zero (ish) knowledge by default.

We know iCloud has configurations that can’t disclosed, and I wonder if there is a middle ground between if you loose the recovery key you are stuffed and maybe have a recovery key unblocked by a password similar to ssh keys

That is more interoperability than guest language situation. I don’t think c++ is a c guest. Ts has a different approach to the js self.

C++ started as a C macro preprocessor, designed to work as C in UNIX, and by CFront 2.0 there was already too much compatibility to throw away.

Ts is basically a linter, everything else is JS.

c++ bootstrapping as a transpiler back when it was a 1 man show is hardly where it’s at today. The point about self handling in ts should demonstrate there is more than just strip the types going on

There is the whole fit into the same UNIX compiler toolchain as C, without additional changes to the linker, include files, object and archive files.

Oh like how gnu compiler includes an ada compiler ? Or the C++ name mangling ?

Obviously there a common heritage and the shared ancestor is c.

C++ name mangling was exactly designed to be able to link C++ code with a standard UNIX linker that only knows C.

GNAT has zero compatibility with C source, doesn't even make sense.

> presenting things

I don’t have a dog in this race, have to say thou the vagueness of the hand waving in multiple comments is losing you credibility

Why

Scarcity mindset.

Saying competition is integrating with whatever or has a feature for bla seems like a good thing

How can we know this is a fact and not a pop science observation

Very easy. Try it,

What does Ynab do that I would get for free with gnu cash? Just downloading bank statements which I’m not ok with and against my banks t&c.

Other wise all non envelope budget systems are horrible for me because I want the budget to be self adjusting so if I spend more on household items 1 month it needs to ensure I have less to spend over the next set of periods till I’ve gone back into positive . Rollover basically

That’s a bad analogy because the qualification is being born in a region not acquiring knowledge thru working. an equivalent would be only electrician can write a book on wiring.

Do you mean wire and tool manufacturers? Electrician is mostly a user. Or to avoid flawed analogies - should books on Windows, Office, ... be only limited to a small subset of Microsoft employees? I'd assume the book is for users, what does it matter if the author contributed to the project?

And that's still ignoring that evangelism is also a valuable contribution.

That was exactly why I picked it as an extreme example to show the absurdity of this rule - there aren't any Legionnaires to write the books, so who's allowed to? Assuming we do want the books.