I usually use the method "shout Banzai! and charge straight like a kamikaze"

Is that the Mikado method?

> their UI feels dated

A big selling point for me. Needless reworking of familiar interfaces plagues MS Windows ecosystem and I'm glad LibreOffice is displaying healthy conservatism by not fixing what isn't broken.

> I still can't figure out quite what motivates these "AI evangelist" types

I'd hazard a guess and say "money"

> It’s beautiful, I love it.

When computers become disposable, their programmers soon become disposable as well. Maybe, you shouldn't love it.

That doesn't make sense.

What, sugars and gum, but no sandwich wrappers?

In the release 1.12 they finally implemented the ability to create compact executables, so I would say the answer to your question is "yes".

If the USA and Europe decide to got this way, they will be (as in many other ways today) followers, rather than the leaders. China already does large-scale net censorship.

Exactly, what this article is arguing for is essentially just the Chinese model of the Internet. The outside is largely inaccessible and the inside is tightly controlled by having political oversight over the large platforms.

No doubt this is effective at achieving the political goal it aims to achieve.

The belief that it is useful.

Words "Python" and "fast" do not belong in the same sentence.

Yeah, when I see these kinds of headlines about Python, I'm always left wondering what they mean by "fast". In this case, "fast" means "still slower than Python usually is".

python is fast because computers are fast, but yea compared to rust it isn't, and in a lot of cases it doesn't have to be

It doesn't, it hurts you by limiting the number of platforms Git is available on.

If it works on mac & linux I've got nothing to worry about