Yup! Same here. Once I’ve got everything set up, it has been running smoothly and without any issues for more than 5 years in my case. It’s literally the most reliable system I’ve ever set up, but I understand that the entry hurdle is pretty high.

I love Arch but I wouldn’t recommend it to anyone. In my eyes, the only way one should choose Arch is despite all warnings against it, because they feel confident enough to deal with all the problems they encounter.

To be fair, this one is more relevant now than it was 20 years ago, with watches and pens being IP capable nowadays.

My colleagues and I joke around that SAP stands for Sadness and Pain.

I believe the amount of hate and mockery Javascript receives is heavily skewed, simply because almost every programmer who is active today has at least some experience with the language, and with more users there are also more people capable of complaining about it.

I work with languages that are much worse than Javascript, yet they don’t receive nearly as much hate because hardly anyone uses them.

One that comes into my mind is ABAP: