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I use those scripts to improve the likelyhood it'll fail to do anything useful.

I even used uname as a fuzzing tool, and that broke builds spectacularly. There's now a more reasonable uname in the sandbox for builds.

Yes, and it's only possible thanks but no thanks to MicroSlop.

And it's not like MS is too poor to do anything useful for their customers. They just don't want to unless the cost-benefit analysis pans out in their favor. The customer is worth as much as their wallet.

Good. Keep fighting the good fight, which isn't actually a "fight" but more a defense. When a service says I need MS-Windows, I don't need that service. I also don't opt in to the Apple/Google duopoly.

It's an editor, just one that you can program in JavaScript.

Remember WordPerfect? When you press F12 in Firefox, you have essentially the same thing as the reveal codes pane in WP.

If this is idiomatic zig, functions must be expensive because it fails horribly in the DRY departement. Also, papering over exceptions everywhere by... catching and not handling exceptions. What could possibly go wrong?

It should be a choice. They were or nearly were convicted for being a monopoly. For most users, they're not even aware there's a hardware/software distiction.

MS-Windows GUI has cashed on this unawareness since 95. "My Computer", "The computer needs to restart"... Being deliberately incorrect to add to the existing confusion.

The whole thing boils down to creating objects (the constructor is built-in) and using functions on objects. Functions are objects, too. In fact, everything except primitive values are objects.

IMHO knowledge of C++, Python, or pretty much everything that's not a lisp variant, doesn't translate well to JavaScript.

There's such a nice language with its own silly warts, readily available to pretty much anyone with a computer regardless of form factor, being misunderstood by the vast majority of programmers.

Odyssey Linux 11 days ago

It doesn't have to be boring if you challenge yourself just enough to make something neat. But I can pretty much guarantee it can get tedious and ungrateful. On top of that, you're not getting paid. I know I can't afford to live that life. Perhaps when I retire, idk.

   > To hell with children.
Myeahno. To hell with draconian law disguised as child protection and to hell with the powers that be, who knowingly and willingly are ruining just about everything nice.