The creator of SourceHut (Drew DeVault) seems to sometimes have controversial views on various technical topics. This seems to attract a certain amount of the wrong kind of attention (e.g. DDoS attacks) though I wouldn't necessarily blame that on the creator.
It also seems to be relatively focused on email based workflows compared to other forges.
To be fair making outrageous claims with no relation to reality is sort of an all year thing with AI bros anyway.
Reminds me of that old magic/more magic switch story.
What is wrong with Spain and Portugal in March?
In my experience the world is run on CSV (and closely related like TSV), XML and JSON files when it comes to actual data exchange via files (as opposed to direct API usage where XML and JSON also dominate). Only the small minority of people working for companies still using ad-hoc workflows instead of custom software might send excel files instead.
Oh yeah, completely forgot to list the destruction of aesthetically pleasing views with public advertising boards and the waste of lifetime spent on watching ads in my list.
Edit: also loss of life from depression and inferiority complexes caused by unrealistic life and body image goals in advertising
That seems more like a 90s problem. Who uses Microsoft Office today as a data exchange format?
Wouldn't be so sure about the entire 21st century. There are some major efforts by the English speaking parts of the world in recent years to ruin that for themselves.
To be fair whoever invented YAML was just a sadist in general who wanted to see everyone in the industry suffer.
So only indentation, no alignment then?
On a long enough timeline, neither is Rust probably, but such is the price of innovation.
It is always so weird to me that people literally seem to believe that complex inventions like programming languages are something we got to perfection within 20 (in C's case) or 30 (in C++'s case) years of the advent of our industry. Especially considering an iteration cycle is somewhere in the decade or longer range for these. I would expect this to improve for at least a couple of hundred years before we reach the point where nothing new can be added to existing programming languages that is worth starting over with a new language to reap the benefits.
Yes, or The Story of Mel