To my eyes just having generics and hiding away pointers and vtables make them very high level, but I think my argument was more about what is coming with the language (aka their standard libraries) and I've definitely seen people ignore the available libraries, even in python.
It's often worse on Windows, since dotfiles aren't hidden and meny dev tools assume they'll be running on *nix even when they support Windows. https://imgur.com/a/Im6G20B capture from my windows box of my $HOME.
3. Even if the "this" installed wasn't the "this" you read about in your browser, it still came from your package manager repos, which you could consider safe, and you'll be able to uninstall it cleanly.
Actually I think that's a common salesman trick ? Put the product in the hand of the customer, so that they feel they already have it, then they have to pay.
[Twitter account] being proven by [Twitter account] kinda defeats the point. You'd want, at a glance, to be able to tell that this account has been linked and proven to belong to all of these other accounts, on these other independent websites.
Not necessarily "write" assembler, but understand it, and, as always we are not at the end of history. New dominant CPU architecture could arise, people understanding and writing assembler will always be needed.