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I mean by useless is it's so slow you can't make games or even big projects for GUI, only you can do is AI/ML, Data Science, and basic stuff. I think Rust is better because of its speed and language capabilities?

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[–] refalo@programming.dev 0 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Demonstrably false, there are many cases where the answer is yes... it's just that there's also a lot of no.

[–] fruitcantfly@programming.dev 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Obviously. It is, however, a good heuristic. The headlines that can be answered in the affirmative are very much in the minority

[–] refalo@programming.dev 1 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago)

The headlines that can be answered in the affirmative are very much in the minority

Not according to several different studies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteridge%27s_law_of_headlines#Studies