The OP is just thoroughly American. Absolutely everything is a business, even marrying and having kids. And the kids themselves of course. If it weren't so deeply disturbing, I would find the pathology fascinating.
> priority on purity and ideology over just growth of the language.
If that's so, I find it OK. The maintainer(s) have the right, even the obligation, to make that choice. Growth alone is not a value, you have to be willing to pay the price for it.
If unclogging the sewers is a way how the deluge of AI slop can create new work, then more power to you! It's one more element that makes it even harder to write satire that is more absurd than reality.
Who knew that my decision to not own a car would turn out to be so prescient. That I can still be killed by a driver distracted by the anti-distraction feature is just the usual irony of existence.
One can always dream. One of the big villain companies getting hit with a fine that's actually substantial for a change would serve as a beacon of hope.
And the US isn't going to comply either. Just like it never recognized the International Criminal Court in The Hague. In that respect it's at least as bad as China.
The best software is correct and safe software. Rating "fast" more important than that is what started all this "worse is better" mess in the first place. Just not enshittifying and not using Electron should be fast enough if you don't write dumb code.
So many parser combinators operate on bytes assuming ASCII input only. I'd be more interested in a parser combinator lib that has UTF-8 decoding already abstracted away, operating on `wchar_t`, or even polymorphic input stream element types.