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Rails is frankly a double-edged sword, though. While it helped propel Ruby, and is a great framework, it also seems to have permanently marked the language with a notion that its simply a vehicle for Rails.

Ruby is probably one of the more coherently designed general purpose programming languages (in my opinion, much more so than Python, a language that dominates the industry) but doesn't seem to get much use in that domain, which is a shame.

1) 50 years of backwards compatibility.

2) It is not necessary.

C's terse syntax is not hard to understand for anyone who actually uses the language. Most of the comments here are from people who do not.

Please educate yourself.

https://www.openbsd.org/security.html

https://www.openssh.com/history.html

A likely guess, although RuneScape isn't Flash based (Java & RuneScript).

"Been there, done that." - Google

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwrIpv38nE

Yeah, the first 10 seconds of the Pockit video immediately sent me back nearly 10 years to Phonebloks.

Some follow up:

Typical, fairly sensationalist piece on Google's Project Ara - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQqudiUdGuo

and then, Phonebloks, 5 years later - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wwrIpv38nE

OpenBSD pages (https://man.openbsd.org/) absolutely rock and other, proper BSDs do quite well.

Also, man pages are for more than just system utilities (man(1)). Which binary should hold pledge(2) (https://man.openbsd.org/pledge), exactly?

Your man pages should be updated when the associated tool is updated.

You are describing a MacOS issue, with its terrible package management, and frustrating toolchains.

Yeah, I'm just going to keep writing C.

Thanks.