I guess the ones they stopped just weren't covert enough.

C is one of the few languages where using goto makes sense as a poor man's local error/cleanup handler.

Trains are expensive to run if you don't have enough passengers (like in small villages).

Kotlin is a really nice language with plenty of users, good tooling support, gets rid of a lot of the boilerplate that older languages have, and it instills many good practices early on (most variables are immutable unless specified otherwise, types are not nullable by default unless specified otherwise, etc)

But to get the most "bang for your buck" early on, you can't beat JavaScript (with TypeScript to help you make sense of your codebase as it keeps changing and growing).

You will probably want to develop stuff that has some user interface and you'll want to show it to people, and there is no better platform for that than the web. And JS is by far the most supported language on the web.

And the browser devtools are right there, an indispensable tool.

Peace treaty signed, then Russia invades 2 years later anyway and takes over everything?

If users have the "I can always upgrade later" option, that screws with the purchases of the higher end models "just in case I need it in the future".

That's trivial to filter if you just look at how much time has passed between posting and editing. Reddit comments are only very rarely updated after more than a day.

Another advantage is that it doesn't force people to initially buy the higher version because "what if I end up needing it in the future" (like what Apple forces you to do with non-upgradable storage), even if you never do. It lets you buy the cheaper version for now, with the possibility to change your mind later.

Which is exactly like the "camera collabs" that phone makers sometimes do that end up being nothing more than marketing gimmicks.

Like the OnePlus camera "by Hasselblad" that is quality wise the same as any other smartphone camera in that price category.

Flutter - the framework - is great. Dart as a language is tolerable - lot of ugly boilerplate, manual codegen, and things you can't quite express correctly are everywhere, but if you're not too much of a stickler, Flutter is still worth it (at least until Compose Multiplatform matures - if ever).

Shouldn't AI be good at detecting and flagging ads like these?

Sounds like this was the strategy from the very beginning - get tons of attention with crazy unrealistic announcements, then later turn it into a boring old regular city after everyone already recognizes the name.