It is an extreme edge case and the argument for a sane government oversight is still perfectly valid. No oversight makes corporations dump waste into the water supply and market asbestos-lined cigarettes. It's naive to think that no oversight is needed.

I don't remember what I've used before uBlock Origin, but since its appearance it's basically solved the ad blocking on Firefox and became the de-facto standard for the browser.

You probably lost all your users to it, rather that they all stopped using FF.

It wasn't an abstract CS flex on interviewer's part either, because apparently the fib trees were actually used in some part of the FrontPage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infinite_Jest

I'm pretty sure they realize perfectly well how ugly it is.

How does it compare to others?

Is it C with bells and whistles?

Is it C++ with blubber removed?

How is it different from D?

From Go?

...

Trying to fish out from a multi-page reference what makes your language unique and what gripes with other languages it solves is tedious, very few people would do it. It's on you to explain it.

https://old.reddit.com/r/NominativeDeterminism/

When I was a pre-teen I found a book of Indian fairytales in a library. It was a translation, it was thick, the stories were few pages each, easy to read and beautifully illustrated. The content however was terrifying. So much violence, greed, poverty and suffering. The retribution when it was dispensed was as satisfying as it was over-the-top cruel. Eye-gouging was like an entry level option.

It was very long time ago, don't remember any details, but I still shudder remembering it.

Not 8 (eight) months later I got a call from their HR saying they'd like to interview me next Thursday. And then they got completely flabergasted when I said I was no longer interested. Don't know what they were smoking, but they were exceptionally full of themselves... while not even offering a good pay.