IMHO VB was not respected because you could not write your own components/widgets in VB, you had to resort to C++. Delphi components were all written in Delphi. It was clear VB was a second-class citizen.
Due to this factor, and others, VB had the typical Microsoft learning curve: extremely easy to do simple things, and then exponentially difficult to do big things. It was the same in MS-Access that many people thought it was the future of client/server apps, ERP apps, etc.
This limitation was lifted in VB6 or so (dumped VB for Delphi when left win16 for win32 so I am not sure).
this started to get interesting with VB4. Suddenly you could create COM servers which especially back then was really difficult to do in C++. VB6 was a really well rounded tool.
The problem is, Macs are too expensive and underpowered these days. More important than developers are users. Right now the Mac is sort of a tax levied on iOS developers
Favelas are a mass transit problem. People live there, in bad conditions, because they are somewhat nearer to their jobs. Otherwise, they would spend half a day in their way to work.. Renting a 'house' in a favela is more expensive then renting a good house in small cities.
Rio has one of the best public transportation systems of Brazil. What is a shame really, because yes, it's not that good.
But the urban area goes for dozens of km on every way. Rio is confined between the sea and the hills, there aren't many places to expand into suburbia.
The car is the last place you might have some privacy, listen to loud music, talk to yourself. I take "micro-vacations from marriage" consisting basically of driving alone a couple days.
The bathroom is arguably the other remaining place for complete privacy, so I understand completely people that can afford huge bathrooms with magazines, TV, etc.
And what do you think those plugins implementing the native sensors or CLLocationManager / FusedLocationProviderClient is written with? Obj-c/Swift and Java/Kotlin.
No one that this proposal would affect would have any trouble escaping if the government became so poorly run that it started to cause serious problems.
You recognize that this is aimed at higher marginal taxes on those who are already making very large amounts of money, right?
More taxes would be a much easier pill to swallow if the people advocating for said taxes at least paid lip service to increasing government efficiency. Some do, but most don't. At best you can get them to acknowledge that suburban police departments don't need MRAPs. There's a lot of fat (mostly related to institutional risk/responsibility avoidance IMO) that could be trimmed and that money could be put into things that actually improve quality of life for people.
