Opera actually had a side to their business that wasn't a browser (that frankly went down the tubes years ago)?

The University of Salford (formerly the Royal Technical Institute) actually is a quite reputable research university — just not (in)famous, so nobody cares about it in these days of sensationalism.

Also, the idea of a soft-skin robotic exosuit exited the realm of "grad student acid dreams" decades ago, having been found in both theory and fiction since the mid-'80s at least.

Finally, if you actually read the article past the blogger's stock photo header, you would have seen ACTUAL prototype hardware, complete with video.

...I basically have three areas I write in.

There are the short and sweet (I mean, we all intend them to be short and sweet, no matter how unwieldy they get) system administration scripts. Those are basically always bash, although after I write them I always go "Damn, I keep meaning to try execline and forgetting it exists!"

There's frontend Web dev. Javascript rules the day here, until WebAssembly finally gets... assembled.

Then there's "everything else", which for the first ten years I wrote code meant Perl. I also flirted with Ruby and Haskell, didn't like Python much, despise PHP and used it anyway when debugging the seemingly-endless string of PHP webapps out there, and somehow convinced myself C/C++/C# were too hard for me to learn.

Then I discovered Rust, and now it's basically my favourite language for anything. Rust has actually made me seriously consider moving from administration and support to development (if anyone local was hiring entry-level Rust developers, anyway!). Will I consider other languages in the future? Probably. But I'm going to consider Rust first.