Just try it. You’ll probably like it. I did.

Because the TV manufacturers own the HDMI licensing body and make money from you for every device you buy with HDMI.

Some people are just intimidated by men with beautiful hair. I got treated quite differently by strangers after I cut mine.

Thats definitely one of the reasons Mozilla is developing rust, but not the only one. The goal of Rust is to make it harder to write insecure code. That requires more upfront work for the coder, and can be less efficient with computer resources, but provides more peace of mind that the finished product doesn’t have as many bugs. Thats a trade off Mozilla and Rust users think is worthwhile, but not everyone agrees with that.

In terms of vendor lock-in from language choice, it’s a big fat It Depends™ lol. Theres a ton of money in big tech, so there are a lot of clever people who work full time trying to lock you onto platforms without it looking to you like you’re falling into their trap, and they use a myriad of tools.

It is rare, but not unheard of for there to be license fees just for using a language like you said. (And sometimes there is even disagreement about who gets to charge licensing fees for a language: See the Java debacle with Google v. Oracle.) However typically the issue is more around being able to use the new features of a platform when a vendor introduces them. For example, Apple really wants you to use Swift to write iPhone apps. You can use alternatives, but then when Apple introduces the new iWiping feature that revolutionizes buttholes, you won’t be able to provide that feature to your users until your language of choice gets updated to support iWipes. That could take a year and means your app is behind your competitor, who just used Swift so Apple made sure they could support iWipes on the day the feature came out.

Another extremely common example is that entire businesses are run through complicated formulas in Excel spreadsheets. Sure, there are many other ways to run a business and keep track of the numbers, but most people start small and then the complexity of their spreadsheets just grows and grows and grows. Those people will be forever stuck paying for an excel subscription (that didn’t even used to be a subscription when the business started, but now it is for some reason!) because the complexity of replacing everything is scary.

I say “we” because I work in software which, past a basic level, involves endless arguing amongst colleagues about what the “best” language to use is for a particular project haha. Your question of why new languages is a really great one, with controversial answers haha.

What it boils down to is that every language is a set of opinions and compromises. Sometimes the assumptions that a language maker has just become less true over time. For example the language for making websites that was written in the 90s assumed that all you would need is a way to describe titles, paragraphs, columns, and some pictures. Websites do a lot more than that now, so people have come up with new languages for building websites.

A lot of it also comes down to people/politics. Since making and maintaining a language can be complex and expensive, it is frequently only taken on by large corporations. Those corporations are always doing their best to lock you into their ecosystem, and they use their language as a carrot. If you use our language and our services, everything will just work the way you want without hassle! By the way next year we are doubling the price of our services but whatcha gonna do about it, you already wrote a bunch of expensive code and hired a bunch of people that are only familiar with our language…pay up now!

It’s a symptom of the category of people who don’t have access to or are unwilling to talk to a medical professional so they just collect diagnoses for themselves based off of relatable internet memes and make it their identity, reality and science be damned.

It’s very hard to keep these people out of online neurodivergent communities because initially an uneducated person who still needs to learn about themselves and their condition with the help of medical professionals is indistinguishable from a self-diagnosis trading card collector, and you don’t want to discourage people who are actually here to learn but are just scared.

Edit: TL;DR look up “toy languages” to see people experimenting and trying shit.

This is an entire branch of computer science that people dedicate their lives to, called language design. You’re correct that we use software to translate a programming language into assembly language. That software is called a compiler.

As far as developing new languages, typically one starts by defining a “formal grammar”, typically in the .lex format. Since writing a whole compiler can be complicated and time consuming, most people just build off of the work of others and adapt an existing compiler such as “LLVM” to understand the grammar of their new language.

It sounds crazy to the uninitiated, but the best way to start learning about how to make computer languages is to learn about what a Turing tape machine is, and what it’s capable of. Then you will be able to understand what the difference between a “context-free” grammar and a “stateful” grammar.

Ok? And?

I don’t understand how this is meaningfully different from passkeys?

Got any examples? Because I have…some…examples of password reuse being a real-life problem.

Two things can be bad at the same time.

Two things can be bad at the same time.

Two things can be bad at the same time.

Yea I’ve been hearing that one since 2003 with my original Prius. That battery lasted 23 years before it crapped out, and modern battery tech is waaaaay better than that thing. Also it wouldn’t have been that much money to refurbish the battery if it hadn’t been too smashed up to bother.

Just have the marketing department call them “Full Self Sticking” and then they literally can’t lose grip.

He was trying to say that he spent too much time in a media bubble disconnected from reality.

(I’m sorry, I should have specified my sarcasm) It’s a thing the creator of Death Stranding made up to troll journalists who kept asking him what type of game he made.

I…don’t know what an extraction shooter is. Until I’m corrected I will assume everyone is a dentist trying to collect teeth from their opponents.

It’s a derivative of the strand-type game.

Just be veeeery careful about reflective surfaces so you don’t hurt other innocent people. Make sure you wear laser glasses that you bought from a real reputable place, Amazon and the likes are full to the brim with counterfeits that don’t protect you from anything.

They just redefined “speedy” to be several years.