mod_php was dramatically simpler to use than mod_perl. If the sysadmin set it up, you didn't need to know it was there, and your regular PHP just ran really fast. That and nothing else really copied the "scriptable HTML file" paradigm which some people really really liked and made a very low barrier to entry compared to Perl. That's really what kicked off the demise of Perl -- it stopped being the most accessible way onto the internet. PHP also didn't screw up their major language upgrades like Perl did.

RoR helped Ruby push off its inevitable demise for a while, but it's going the same way as Perl. Python got lucky that it's become the defacto choice for everything ML.

Is there a compelling reason to use ghostty on Linux, over say, gnome-terminal or foot?

What other mainstream languages have pre-emptive green threads without function coloring? I can only think of Erlang.

Can you create multiple instances each with their own IP address like you can with Virtualbox? Networking was the reason I didn't stick with WSL2 when I tried it but that was a long time ago and it's probably improved.

DCSS pretty much plays itself and not in a good way. No idea why people find it fun at all, and I'm a hardcore fan of CDDA, Nethack, even Brogue.

Food was almost never interesting in DCSS, except for maybe Centaurs.

Once you reached a certain point you either had a giant stack of rations or a giant stack of honeycombs if you were a Spriggan. Random mutations can happen from other non-food sources, and most items are not worth lugging around so it never really forced you to make decisions. I handled long term item storage by setting a waypoint on a square on a finished floor I used to store items. If you have ++Fire, +Cold, and +RMut then you have all of the resistance you’ll need.

FWIW I’ve won crawl dozens of times, at least once for every race and class. Placed in the top 3 for the 0.10 online tournament, both individually and my team. The two guys who beat me were both child chess prodigies, both won the Morgan Prize and both were multiple time Putnam Fellows; I went to public school and later got a GED. Felt pretty big brained after that tournament lol.

Haven’t played since 0.13

Both comments are missing the reason that an encyclopedia should not be cited:

An encyclopedia does not cite its sources, and does not claim to be a primary source, its potentialymistakes cannot be checked.

(Wikipedia has the additional problem that, by default, the version cited is the ever-changing "latest" version, not a fixed and identified version.)

> they’re the ones who set this up to work this way.

Who lobbied for it to work that way? I'm assuming google aren't entirely innocent here.