Entertaining Stack Overflow discussion (from April 1st) of .png source code input to a C++ compiler: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5508110/why-is-this-program-erroneously-rejected-by-three-c-compilers
I'm slightly horrified that you could accept .png source code and still be a standards compliant compiler!
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Co-Authored-By: An old Stack Overflow answer, blindly accepting the compiler's suggestions, and a linter.
The Stack Overflow moderator strike has come to some agreements! https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/391847/moderation-strike-results-of-negotiations
This seems like a good outcome, and it should help communication going forward.
I can't think of any other cases where volunteers have successfully run strikes in tech before.
Suppose I want to convert a string to uppercase in a language.
(1) Google it.
(2) Read the official docs or a Stack Overflow answer.
(3) Copy-paste the function/method name to my program.
This is an absurd number of keystrokes! Do any languages aim to minimise this?