Imagine a chemistry lab tutorial aimed at 9th grade students getting “as a non-chemist, this reads as gibberish” comments from first graders. Nobody would blame the tutorial authors.

People need to start putting in the effort. There is no such thing as learning for free.

I agree about everything said about it being a gateway to authoritarian measures, digital feudalism and all that. But there’s a silver lining

Porn censorship is going to destroy the entire internet

Yes. And this is our chance of building a better “parallel” internet. The tech exists (BitTorrent, Tor, Bitcoin, Nostr, Reticulum, Radicle, and myriad others), people need to start using it.

Fair enough. I hate YAML too, but I’m stuck with Python for now and Comby doesn’t handle indentation too well (it’s in their FAQ).

ast-grep is worth checking out too: https://ast-grep.github.io/