a hill i'd die on if i cared about programming is that plaintext source code is pointless at best, deeply harmful at worst and just represents laziness rather than any advantage whatsoever

— 🎃Utterly dispassionate documentary hog slaughte🎃 (@gravislizard) October 9, 2019

Agreed. Just inertia from the past. We haven’t explored a hundredth of the better paradigms that are out there. Thinking we magically hit on just the right answers in the first 10 years of computing is asinine. It’s like Oga with her round bashing rock in 3.3 million BCE thinking that she’d found the only tool she’d ever need, and we never advanced from there (which is…shockingly accurate, considering how very long the Paleolithic actually lasted).

I think we can and should do better.