In Austin, there was a short period of time where all grocery stores were legally required to ditch plastic bags.

A successful campaign strategy for city council right after that was to run against the plastic bag ban because people kept forgetting their reusable bags. Everybody agreed they are bad but individualism and a sense of laziness prevailed. This is America.

My issue isn’t any particular language but the advocates of various languages treating their language as the best hammer for every nail.

An article written for people who do not exist. People who will listen to this article who are in the overlap with people who need to hear it.

I’m not sure how well this meme is making it’s point. Lemonade is by definition mostly water.

Different user here.

My only criteria for a backend language is it tells me something went wrong and where. Hence my distaste for JS.

Some things we would want to install aren’t in the official repos. Downloading the deb file is a solution to that for newer users.

It’s not attitude they are giving you. It’s strong recommendation. It’s the strong recommendation of the entire Linux community.

Sudo is different than run as admin and is not intended to be used to do things the way Windows does them.