Readit News> they usually don't have to be fast since they're usually just used to delegate operations off to other code for performance
Even now you're bending over backwards to make ridiculous rationalizations for the bankrupt "Unix Philosophy". And you're just making my point for me. Does the Unix Philosophy say that the shell should be designed to be slow and inefficient and syntactically byzantine on purpose, or are you just making excuses? Maybe you don't think YOUR shell scripts have to be fast, or easy to write, read, and maintain, or perform simple arithmetic, or not have arsenals of pre-loaded foot guns, but speak for yourself.
Even if Unix is bad, I like it.
Disney cared about children's online safety obsessively, and would have preferred to close down the whole virtual world and lay off the team rather than put a single child at risk.
Source: I worked there for several years.
I played some TT rewritten a couple of years back and everyone can just chat away. My opinion is that restricted chat was better.
I remember waking up early on Saturdays in 90s to load some game from tape on my C64 before the neighbor starts his sawmill. Couldn't load anything when it was running :)
You're saying that like it should mean something. It's still the subjective opinion of a person. It holds no more or less value than the subjective opinion of another person. Being a journalist doesn't automatically make you the supreme authority on something, you're still just a professional opinionator (no offence), but that opinion can be different than other users.
>I have been using Macs since 1986 (as a developer)
That's an issue IMHO. Long term MacOS nerds are the ones who got used to all the quirks and can't see anything at fault as they molded themselves into he platform with age, developing muscle memory workarounds without realizing, so to them that status is perfection.
Meanwhile, new users to the platform will see things differently.
I am replying to you from my third mac. I got it less than a year ago and it is the first Mac I have used since 2010 or so. Sure I am getting used to it but it does surprise me how different some things are from my typical XFCE/Win10 environments. I know unintuitive is the wrong word but at least for my own intuition, it is unintuitive.
It may be that I don't notice when I use it, if the page just translates itself into XHTML and I would never know until opening the developer tools (which I do often, fwiw: so many web forms are broken that I have a habit of opening F12, so I always still have my form entries in the network request log). Maybe it's much more widespread than I knew of. I have never come across it and my job is testing third-party websites for security issues, so we see a different product nearly every week (maybe those sites need less testing because they're not as commonly interactive? I may have a biased view of course)