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Now everyone seems to praise the compiler barfing three screenfuls of text and code and explaining the include hierarchy of my project and expanding all the macros and making bogus suggestions because I mistyped a variable name.

It's gotten to the point where locating the actual error message is literally more work than fixing the code. It doesn't help that this interferes with navigation in emacs and trying to jump to next error instead takes you to the next #include line gcc wants you to learn about.

    $ cc -fdiagnostics-plain-output c.c
    cc: error: unrecognized command-line option ‘-fdiagnostics-plain-output’

I think that a lot of the stuff people take for granted in modern programming languages would've been considered clever tricks or just complex and alien mechanisms by the average programmer around when I started 25 years ago (remember serious business that ran on basic?).

The way mainstream code looks today has changed a lot compared to then, and I predict it will still change a lot.

Simple means "not complex."

Busybox shell and musl are both less complex than bash and glibc.

I'm not sure how you mean this but what you say comes dangerously close to implying that people want ads. That may be true if you force them into a false dichotomy (pay or have ads).

I think it's more just that people don't want to pay. If it's on the web, they read it for free, period. If it's not on the web, then it isn't and they don't read it. If you look at it from this perspective, ads aren't even part of the discussion. I think people prefer the "someone pays for it" model to anything else.

The dichotomy is only real if you construct a hypothetical scenario about some ad-or-paywall site that absolutely must exist and that people absolutely want to read and for which no alternative can emerge if that site stops existing.

I don't care one bit if ad supported sites just vanish, no need for an alternative. Yes please, clean up the web. What's left is the stuff that is worth enough for people to pay for.

Is there any literature or studies to back this?

I thought one of the downfalls of modern software is a ridiculous number of tiny dynamic allocations, often deliberately randomized in space. Lots of pointer chasing and hard-to-predict access patterns.

And some people work really hard to make their access patterns cache friendly, which is far from trivial and for most software, not a cost they can justify. Sometimes changing the access patterns means reorganizing all vital data structures and going SoA to AoS (or vice versa) and due to limited language support, that can mean sweeping changes across the entire code base. It doesn't help that as new features are added, requirements on these data structures and access patterns can change a lot.

I prefer to depend on the user agent for user interaction and behavior. Javascript and all its potential for tracking, malware, side channel exploits, etc. should be abolished from the safe web.

Also less people just caring about anything that isn't the normal open web. Have to install something? Nope, no way. Unless some very dramatic and visible changes take place in our society (or big companies with too much power step in and make the choice for the average user), darknets are doomed to be a tiny tiny niche.

Right now tor stats says there are between 2M and 2.5M users.. and if you discount everyone who's just using it to hide their IP / piracy / working around geo blocks, the potential audience for content hosted as a hidden service is absolutely tiny.

I also think that if tor or any such system got really big among normies, governments would start cracking down. Right now it's probably just a convenient tool for hosting honey pots and keeping an eye on the few people that use it.

Every once in a while I think about hosting a blog or a forum on tor but then I get the vibe that I'd have about as many readers as I would if I just wrote my thoughts on toilet paper before flushing.

Good riddance. Affiliate schemes just encourage people to spam low quality content full of affiliate links to products that are rarely good.

Anything that can run a "real workload" is these days going to be heavily targeted by buttcoin miners and other abuse. Any free trial is ripe for abuse, and it becomes a cat & mouse game to try to identify and stop them before they waste all your resources. Is that fight worth fighting for a small business? Probably not. Yeah, you might lose a stingy few potential would-be customers but that may cost less than the fight. I bet most of these small businesses will be happy to refund your $7 if you try their service, find out that it's not for you, and explain your situation nicely.

I get where you're coming from; you just want free stuff. Understandable. But also understand that there are people who want to operate and support different kinds of businesses. For example, we might pay a few dollars a month for someone to host a git repo: https://sourcehut.org/pricing/

Offering service actually costs money, and it has to come from somewhere.

Consider next a keyboard with programmable firmware (QMK) so you can adjust and mitigate bounce in software.

Even if you don't rub it in my face, you're still sitting on an ass.

Having one doesn't make the work place a strip club, even if someone there likes to spend their off moments imagining how your concealed taint might look.

I could run my errands without braking at all (except when stopping at a parking lot). Anticipate lights and traffic flow, downshift to slow down.. that's how I used to drive. At home I could even park without braking to slow down, thanks to a small incline at my parking spot.

My previous car, which had automatic transmission, didn't have really show any issues with rust because I actually had to brake when driving around town. Same weather, same locale.