I wrote my first web app in Perl and we used it at my workplace for a decade. It's a shame that Perl went through a drawn-out engine rewrite and is now just a lowly scripting tool again (and even in that space, nowhere near as popular as it was in its heyday). Such a shame.

I'm gonna get a lot of flack for hating on Python but its insistence on meaningful whitespace has kept me at bay (that, and the fact I'm not a data scientist or anything).

I once tried Dart to write a mobile app in Flutter but its strait-jacket code formatter told me all I needed to know.

If you're too lazy to write a proper code parser/formatter, then your language isn't for me (and probably a LOT of people).

It's no great loss because Dr Who has been circling the drain for years, and from what I've seen on recent episodes, has well and truly been flushed.

Yes, it's totally cringeworthy.

My ripped collection is in a somewhat messy state because of the lack of easy solutions that I find acceptable. Since joining Spotify Premium recently, I'm in the process of selling off some of the least-listened-to CDs on my overflowing shelf. Ain't nobody got time to fuss over ID3 tags and file names anymore :-D

I've got about 2000 CDs of classical music and recently subscribed to Spotify Premium for the convenience. It's nice to know I still have the CDs, which I've ripped to MP3 and copied to some USB sticks to play in the car. There's a few titles not on Spotify but there's plenty of alternative recordings. I've run out of shelf space anyway, so continuing to acquire more CDs isn't feasible. The Apple offering didn't look as compelling as Spotify, which I'm sure will catch up and add more features (they've closed their suggestions page because of they had so many!)

Agreed. It's so bad, isn't it! STD is the perfect acronym for it, really. SNW is a tad better, but it's got its issues, too. Only Picard season 3 was any good.

No doubt they did it so they can take the idea and turn it into some malnourishing gruel not even Krusty the Clown would put his name to.

Taking away configurability (through the GNOME 3.0 release) is what drove me to KDE and then eventually to Mac when KDE 4.0 was a bit too half-baked for my liking. It's been so long now that the only Linux I use is in a docker container. Quite happy to keep it there and to keep macOS as my main desktop.

It just does not make sense! :-D

Why on earth would anybody want to write their own web browser in this day and age? Like slack_justyb said above, the standard is so huge, that you'd simply be wasting your time, and whatever you did come up with would be utterly useless for 99.9% of users. The world does not need another web browser (just like it doesn't need another Linux distro or desktop environment). Get involved in the standards that are out there and work to make them better. Chromium and Firefox is more than enough.

Every time I go into the control panel these days I have to use search to find things because I have no idea where anything is. One thing I'll give Apple is their Preferences window has barely changed, like.... ever. Good luck trying to navigate your way to where you go and add environment variables if you were used to Windows XP, Windows 7, etc.

I can't see this brain fart getting anywhere soon. The web is too ubiquitous and the concepts described in TFA are just a random jumble of ideas. Change the channel, Marge.

I didn't know about that avenue to attack. Even better. Sue 'em!

If a company keeps sending erroneous DMCA notices, then they should be ignored on a permanent basis.