Exactly. The idea behind it is that everything is "reusable". But the practicality of it is that all of your code and development time goes towards ensuring that code can be reused. Then you end up with a monster so big that only the people who wrote the damn thing can actually reuse the code. Everyone else just ends up writing their own versions. Again though, after years of programming on a system, you can "get the hang of it" on their particular flavor of insanity. Then everything works as planned. But who needs that? I can go to the Linux kernel right now and find exactly what I need because those guys don't fuck around with trying to be overly clever with their overall design and "reusability". Sure there's some dragons down there, but I'm much more comfortable in a world where the language itself isn't designed to fuck me at every turn.

Even Torvalds weighs in: https://archive.is/tA75S

I've been using C++ for years now and I'm absolutely convinced it's a terrible language for not the same reasons you do. C++ sucks because it allows clever people to write code that is damn near unintelligible. I once worked with a guy who, by all accounts was very intelligent, but when he got his hands on a c++ compiler would write shit that not even Turing himself could interpret. C++ isn't crap because it's different per platform. That's actually the most clear part of programming with it. C++ sucks because it gives shitty people too much rope to hang everyone else on their team with. The more features to a language the more bullshit people will try to pull. I stick with C and ASM and that's all anyone needs.

Ok python? You are going to have to explain yourself. The whole point of an emulator is to do opcode mapping and I can't even begin to comprehend why you would use python other that to do some kind of opcode to Python statement mapping, which.... I don't know. Either way, congrats.

It's like you are brilliant because you made this in the first place, but then the word 'python' flowed from your lips. Then I got thrown into cognitive dissonance.

I really don't get why people have lost their ability to create their own web server. At some point during the "Web 2.0" era we decided that we'd only focus our efforts on giving reddit and facebook more content than they could handle. All of these people's concerns would be alleviated if they just hosted their own Git repo. Nobody actually needs Github.

Don't have to trust him. It's all independently verifiable. However, one of the good things is that github is just a single site. Anyone can host a git repo somewhere. The beauty of open source.