Is there a reason for the string not to be a struct, so that you're still just passing around a pointer to that struct (or even just passing it by value)?
I might guess that GP is referring not to interface ergonomics (for which a struct is a perfectly satisfactory solution, as you describe), but to implementation efficiency. A pointer is one word. A slice / string view is two words: a length and a pointer. A pointer to a slice is one word, but requires an additional indirection. I personally agree that slices are probably the best all-around choice, but taking double the memory (and incurring double the register pressure, etc.) is a trade-off that's fair to mention.
> They explicitly say they ONLY use paid services/software to ensure there is liability and support.
Hahahahaha. Yes, by all means, call IBM or Oracle and ask them to compensate you for downtime. Support, sure, of a sort. If you throw enough money at them, you'll get an answer from them in an arbitrarily short time frame.
> They also switched from yearly to quarterly releases (for their Apps) which means they deliver a lot of features in a year.
Without commenting on whether this is true of Oracle, that conclusion doesn't inherently follow from the given. If I'm driving 60 miles per hour, then recalculate it in miles per minute, that doesn't actually mean I'm going faster. Oracle could easily be delivering 1/8 a year's worth of features in 1/4 a year due to release process overhead for all I'd know.
Sort of. The VirtualBox Extension Pack is free for personal or educational use. It is explicitly not free for work use[0]. You can download it for free, but accepting the license to do so obligates you to pay them for it.
If you are not yet in Oracle's clutches you have to be extremely naive or shortsighted to be using Oracle cloud. Obviously the low prices are because they have a shit product and shit reputation, and the moment they think they captured large enough audience they are going to hike them
Yup. They're not offering those prices out of generosity. They're offering them because that's the most they can charge big players who understand what it means to buy from Oracle.
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