You mean it is a kink so annoying that it will put you off porn for a while because of how often it is mentioned around that time of year?
Seems likely for the era that game will be released in, yeah.
Not just programming languages either, the hardware side is dead simple too. You can literally implement it in a few lines of VHDL or similar language on an FPGA.
magnetic media can retain data indefinitely when stored without power.
That is not true. Old floppy disks often do not work anymore (old as in 15-20 years unused).
Not really sure how you think merely considering a different voting system will change anything.
At this point I would be surprised if it makes it for another 30 years.
I would argue that by definition if the people shopping there are fewer and fewer every year it is not popular.
For the same reason our OS memory management class was in Java, a language without pointers, because some idiot decided all courses had to be standardized on the same language because the industry says they need people who know that language now.
Couldn't be a compiled language, those wouldn't even get to the point where you send a request.
Obviously, one is chicken^4 and one is chicken * s^4
Regardless of what is the best path for you, making major life choices because "it is expected" or "it is the default thing to do" is not a good choice.