This is certainly relevant to aikido, and in particular the somewhat nebulous concept of "aiki". Unnecessary tension in a technique creates a reaction in your partner which tends to block things. Skilled practitioners make things look effortless, and use much less tension - they are more relaxed. It's a fascinating study - and lots of fun.
Very different sport - but check Shane Benzies and his books and videos on running and technique - how technique makes a huge difference, with less effort.
Apple spent a lot of effort adapting or creating languages, starting with Clascal/Object Pascal (or Woz' SWEET16 as an alternative high-level assembler-like intermediate language and 16-bit virtual machine) over Objective C (bought from Brad Cox and Tom Love and significantly extended/changed over the years) to Swift. They also used these languages to implement critical parts of the system software, e.g. for the Lisa or the NeXTstep ObjC-based driver framework.
So this speculation has quite some credibility - but, as the author states, I think this is still in an early stage and will take quite some time to become mature.
There are other people designing their own system-level language and OS, e.g. Drew DeVaults Hare and the Helios microkernel and Bunnix Unix clone based on Hare - this is a single person effort, so given Apple's resources, this is definitely feasible.
The rewriting: quite believable, but it will take a looooooooooooooong time, and their goals may change looooong before they get there.
It not being Swift: unlikely, IMO. They’re spending lots of resources on Swift-C++ interoperability, added lots of low-level stuff to Swift, and advertise Swift for embedded use on Swift.org,
I don’t see what another language could bring. I also do not see them rename embedded Swift to something else; it’s hard enough for them to make Swift get traction outside their ecosystem already.
Also note that the “New Apple Language (hypothetical)” sample already is valid Swift code.
This sounds like AI assisted bunk. All their supposed evidence (tenuous at best) would also apply to developing swift.
The example code is identical to the Swift code, one just isn’t letting the compiler discern type. I think the author doesn’t actually understand what they’re talking about.
Apple has spent a lot of effort making Swift more secure , especially with Swift 6. And a lot of effort trying to move C++ codebases to Swift. So this sounds highly unlikely as a premise.
There's the entertaining bit in the film The Imitation Game (the breaking of Enigma code by Alan Turing) where they realised that a weakness was the daily weather report always containing the words "weatherreport" and "heil bloody hitler" (with obvious addition!)
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/fAsSNjedZWI or longer version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SkETN-xENAM
20 years ago I had a somewhat similar experience - a pub off The Strand in central London.
My bag/briefcase was under a (high) table, and in that case the pub was able to view CCTV and work out the guy who sat nearby and hooked his leg to grab my bag - while I was distracted.
Luckily for me, while it contained laptop and passport, I got a call 20 mins later from my wife, who had been contacted by someone 100m away in a different pub. The thief had taken my bag with laptop, not realised there was also a passport in there, gone to another pub, stolen another bag, switched my laptop into said bag, and gone off. The owner of other lost laptop had found my (empty) bag/passport, rang my wife, and we met and at least I got bag (and passport) back...
Net result, lost laptop, but not lost passport. Much less hassle, although still a wake up call...
As an aside, a friend in Tokyo only a couple of years ago suddenly realised he had lost his passport. A couple of hours of searching bags later, panic when he realised it was mid afternoon Friday, consulate was going to close soon, and not reopen until Monday - with his flight scheduled Monday early!
Rang the consulate to ask advice: "oh yes, police station XXX rang us to report they had had your passport handed in - please go and pick it up!". So we did!
Lovely country Japan in many ways! It had just dropped out of his bag onto pavement, been found and handed in...
A smallish city in Pennsylvania. Dropped my wallet/id and work badge rushing to catch the bus to work. Someone picked it up, googled me, found an article from the local newspaper announcing my wedding, all with my home address, dropped the items in my mailbox and called my office to let me know. That was when I knew that my local paper still publishes marriages, divorces and bankruptcies, complete with all personal details. That was scary.
Wasn't the whole point of blanketing the country with CCTV to catch criminals? If it's too low res to even work out someone's face to the point where you can identify him, then what are all those cameras achieving?
Anarcho-tyranny. It's not so much to catch the career criminals as it is to make sure that no political organizing can happen on any scale major enough to disrupt the machine. The criminals are encouraged in order to terrorize the public so that they beg for bigger government, higher taxes, and more centralized control structures. The elite running the show don't actually care about "little people." Any care that actually takes place is incidental, more up to the local constabulary or local officials who aren't completely on board with the bigger picture.
