I do not understand why would anyone care about nanometers at all. There are power efficiency, performance, reliability, price/value characteristics that are more important to an average consumer than the lithography process size.
> I dislike types in 30 lines of python
They are already there you just don't want to acknowledge them. You can build the same prototype in strictly typed language just by sticking to some primitive types like int/string and type inference, and the progress toward something more complex as your prototype grows. I personally prefer to use types right away, so type system can guide me further and show me when I'm assuming something in a wrong way.
Some time ago I used to work on VSCode with vim plugin and to tell the truth all those vim plugins were nothing compared to spacemacs or evil-mode on vanilla emacs.
At first I think that this would be some kind of terminal browsers with very limited number of features, but after few minutes of using it looks very impresive. I'll try to move all my dayly programming browsing and see how it will work.
How do people even buy on this "mining money" thing?
For me, it's just like thousands of people burning tons of electricity for nothing, which they could direct to really useful calculations in astronomy or physics for example.