Good for you. Not all of us have terabytes of free space on our computers.
Only a part. A lot of the complexity is completely unnecessary.
Or Nim?
What’s the point of having a function in the standard library if the universal recommendation is to never use it?
Rust is downloading 1546 dependencies
I’m pretty sure it’s not 362 880.
It’s a part of the art style.
It’s freeware, but not FOSS.
Not only that, it makes your entire purchase free due to NaN arithmetic.
They said “the official version”.
As the OP said, there are FOSS hosted forges. You don’t need to self-host.
With SourceHut, other people can submit patches by e-mail, no need to create an account.
Because touch screens are very different from typewriters and having to precisely press tiny keys without making full use of their capabilities is extremely inefficient.
Let’s say you get to pass a law in the USA that would make it illegal to have more than a billion dollars. How would you formulate this law and what would you expect to happen when it’s passed?
Not if the language is standardized from the start.
An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.
Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.
To be honest, my comment probably applies more to
gets
, but the point is the same.