Even if the tool works perfectly, you have to run it every time you change something. It's not the end of the world, but it's still much nicer to just have a macro to derive it at compile time.

I was worried about that with Arch, and yes the setup takes longer, but other than that for me it's just been "run 'pacman -Syu' every few weeks" and otherwise forget, been running like that for a few years. So I'd still say it's set and forget tbh, just that the set part is a bit more work.

It's not hard, just if you're doing it for a struct with a lot of fields it's a lot of boilerplate

I don't really like Go either, but it's better than Java, and it's pretty good for Big Software (tm). In the end, every language has some problems. Java just has all of them.

That's not true, otherwise distillation would be impossible. You lose some water along with the alcohol but not the same percentage of both.

More likely it was "please cite these tangentially related papers from the same field but not actually related to this work, which were totally not written by me, your anonymous reviewer, (who was picked because of my activity in this research area), and I'm definitely not suggesting them to drive my citation count up, no siree."

It's not rational, it's virtue signalling for the owning class. It's saying "we are pious believers in the neoliberal order and we are happy to treat our employees like shit".

Until they eventually do

He'll be a grovelling serf, and probably not end up in the actual firing line

People say her podcast is actually good. I don't know, I haven't listened to it, but if so, then she is playing the game with decidedly more skill than just one 5-second video clip.