There are a few reasons for this, some of the most important being:

• The languages were not designed with speed primarily in mind and as such made some design decisions that fundamentally cannot be optimized around
• Authors of programs in these languages prioritize things other than performance when writing the programs.

Speed is not just about processors becoming faster - this is a large part of why DSA is important to learn as a programmer.

My most McGyvered solution to create a bootable USB was to take a really old Android phone and make it into one. Worked surprisingly well, actually.

No need to deal with aggressively incompetent management when planting potatoes.

It seems that we are in agreement, no? That a lot of car commuters behave like children?

I’m not a right winger, nor acting as one.

I’ll concede that I don’t know what political affiliations you have, but you are definitely acting like many of them do.

If you’re treating adults as if they were kids

Pedagogy does not refer to teaching children, it refers to teaching in general. Teaching others when working with software is expected, and it is expected to do so in an effective manner.

Also, Torvalds is a kernel developer. He is not a teacher.

The fact that you think that developers are not expected to teach is telling that you either don’t work as one, or have only worked in ineffective organizations.

Side note: it just clicked me that you guys are being culturally insensitive and imperialistic, given that a lot of Torvalds’ no-bullshit behaviour is likely partially cultural in nature.

Now you’re just grasping at straws, and this continues the trend of acting like a right-winger which I mentioned before.

For what it’s worth, I’ve worked with plenty of Finnish developers - none of them consider yelling at their peers to be an important part of their culture.

I don’t think car commuters necessarily make for a good example of adult behavior - in fact, the opposite tends to be true.

There’s no need to yell at someone to convey what’s wrong with their code.

None whatsoever, in fact.

This comment is giving me a lot of ‘rightwinger calling others snowflakes’-vibes.

Did you know that yelling is not a particularly effective technique pedagogically?

Did you know that you can be diligent without yelling at people?

Linus has full control over what code makes it into the kernel, yelling is not required to accomplish that.

Did you know that it’s entirely possible to criticize someone else’s code without yelling at them?

It’s disappointing to see this kind of stuff still happening. Adults do not act this way. Do better, Linus.

I have one that is old enough to not run AndroidTV, but I’m upgrading to one that does after Christmas.