I endorse this message.

How confident are you your video card is going to work out of the box, and stay working? In my case (Linux/Nvidia) the answer is “not very”.

(40 euro seems like a lot to pay for onboard video, but even if you only need it once…)

Sorry, my news was slightly tongue in cheek. Any assembly-like solution ultimately treats strings that way.

Web Assembly handle strings as arrays of integers

I’m afraid I may have some startling news.

If you like the JVM, but not Java, you should absolutely consider Kotlin. Increasing number of jobs, mobile and server side dev, and (for whatever that is worth) I don’t hate it at all.