micpalmia

Doesn't this look very very similar to Notion? It doesn't seem to be from the same people though, feels like I'm missing something.

Not knowing much about archiving, this also struck me as a fairly superficial way to build an "archive" - seems more like an opinionated "best of" than an actually useful archive for future humans. I would like to see an actual OPAC!

Has anybody found any credible institutional source on this?

While this looks and feels fun, I also felt so bad - it's such a huge waste of energy, computing resources and bandwith.

I don't know much about the US, but in Europe the majority of colleges is now teaching either java or C++ as the first language, and only a minority is teaching scripting languages as PHP. I guess it's easier for students to understand higher-level languages and to transport their knowledge to other languages (or, at least, it was easy for me).