What I'm getting at is that people are getting the shape of the problem wrong (it was never ownership vs licensing), so the solution has to be different too. E.g. Bluray AACS revocation provides the technical means through which licences for physical media can be revoked just like purely downloadable stuff can.

Yes, physical media being de facto irrevocable is the important part, but even that has caveats (such as Bluray AACS revocations).

It's never been legal to copy a book, film, or music album and sell the copies, for example, because the licence doesn't allow it. Hence freeware, shareware, and copyleft licences.

https://frame.work/gb/en/products/deep-computing-risc-v-main...

https://longnow.org/ideas/richard-feynman-and-the-connection...

0. https://javadoc.lwjgl.org

And yes, coreutils is a great example of what I mean. The GNU project was always meant to be the basis for a production grade operating system. I mean, GNU Hello is just a hello world program, and its source weighs in at 707kB zipped (or 3.6MB unzipped). The purpose is having a trivial application that can serve as reference for all the standard practices of the GNU Project. No amount of writing things in Rust can replace the engineering mentality that leads to GNU Hello existing. In comparison, as I understand it uutils was first and foremost an educational project that got coopted into being used in production. Things are very much not alike here.

If a language's mental model doesn't mesh well with yours, that's in and of itself an ever-flowing fountain of bugs, and a legitimate reason not to use it. This isn't a valid excuse to not give unfamiliar languages an earnest try, but does justify different people reaching different conclusions afterwards.

The single most important part of the mental model for programming in Excel is precisely that it takes people who tell themselves they could never be programmers, and tricks them into believing they aren't really programming, so they're "allowed" to do it by themselves. It's an incredibly empowering piece of tech. Rust and Zig and Haskell and all the other languages that excite me personally can never hold a candle to that.

> Each language, whether it's F#, Haskell, Common Lisp, PHP, ... brings with it its own kinds of expressiveness and usefulness, and ecosystems of programmers and libraries/modules form around it.

Preaching to the choir :)

As somebody who’s fascinated by programming languages in general, I’m quite keen on Zig. I prefer Rust, and disagree with a bunch of things Zig does, but admire the language for trying.

It’s not nothing, but clearly not what Andrew meant.

Unless you shoot Fuji (where their absolutely incredible film emulation engine is one of the big differentiators), most serious-ish photographers shoot raw rather than jpeg, and do their own processing after, so the sooc jpeg look is largely irrelevant.