It's common in technology to deal with incredibly large numbers, so you eventually develop an intuition for different orders of magnitude.
Perhaps we should use the same prefixes elsewhere? E.g. the world has 7.5 gigapeople and US national debt is 22 petadollars.
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I suspect every programming language eventually becomes dated.
As soon as you commit to 1.0, you will have design decisions that (with hindsight) are mistakes, and you can't fix them.
Design best practices change over time too. Immutability is a more common default now.
Choosing the right amount of content to put on each docs page is surprisingly hard.
I've seen info/man pages as a single large HTML page and it eventually slows down the browser. A short page with a short scrollbar is less intimidating and you're more likely to read to the end.
I'm really flattered that IntelliJ users are requesting structural diffs and referencing difftastic!
(FWIW I'd love to eventually ship a reusable library, but APIs are just changing too fast right now.)
https://youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/IDEA-291212