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My confusion stems from the fact that when you say "implementing" animations, I think of shuffling pixels around. By your logic, every HTML marquee tag "implements" an animation.

The Twitter character limit prohibits going in depth. That is the opposite of what I am looking for. Also, the lack of threading discourages having branches of discussion for the lesser important points.

Yes, but please, can you avoid going around saying that? My children depend on the money I earn by selling support for this. Complexity is a virtue of our industry, and by embracing it, we will all be richer and happier.

Those are some adjectives and a noun. What are you implying? Do you not think that birdyrooster is insightful?

ROC president Ma Ying-jeou asserted claims on mainland China in 2008. PRC claims Taiwan all the time. So is that really equivalent?

Why are you stopping? Because you think they collaborate with the FSB more now?

PHP? Are you referring to the programming language? What do you mean by "PHP threads"?

> The UI and animations are implemented in JavaScript

Can you point me to the code implementing an animation in JavaScript?

what do you mean by lighthouse?

Redux brands itself as a tool for managing state. How does GraphQL manage state?

gRPC is awkward on web because it assumes HTTP/2. The web is still half HTTP/1. Also, gRPC does almost everything, but not quite, it doesn't know how to synchronize state in general. It is a heavy weight choice considering that you may only need protobuf. And protobuf is not natively supported in browsers, web devs can't agree on serialization libs, they can only agree on the serialization format. And they didn't choose protobuf ;)

The BDFL is a position that you have for life. It is embedded in the definition. So it is impossible to shed the title.

VisualEditor is not worth it. It's being touted as a massive improvement, but which editors is it really catering too? Most valuable content in Wikipedia is written by a minority! By spending too much money on VisualEditor, you're optimizing for people who are barely adding value anyway! The money could have been spent on an interactive markup tutorial instead. That would be way cheaper, because it has a linear flow. It would also have been easier because it isn't as performance critical, as it doesn't need to load millions of time per day, only as part of the onboarding process.

If you compare Wikimedias spending 5 years ago to what it is now, it has ballooned in such an excessive way if you put it in context. Wikipedia isn't providing double the value of what it was 5 years ago.