Nice work!

Hi ancient fuuuuuuuuck, I'm dad.

Never.

(Figured I'd answer since I'd usually only be compelled to answer if I was a yes.)

Is the joke that nobody knows what it says on the blackboard?

I'm glad I live in a place where this would give you almost no info.

Because there's more than two options.

Honestly the biggest takeaway for me is that apparently, they talk like this in private as well. In other words, they do seem to actually believe what they say. Or at least believe that they have to keep up appearances to each other.

Appears to be a mistake, but needs gorhill to appeal to make the reviewer aware of the mistake and to be able to fix it, which he doesn't feel like doing because he thinks it's unlikely to have been a mistake.

Update: now reversed, but gorhill removed it himself just to not have to deal with the review process and the possibility of human error anymore.

This sounds exactly like the type of nontechnical nonsense they're complaining about: attacking a strawman ("they're trying to prevent people from refactoring C code and making them rewrite everything in the current fancy language") even after explicitly calling out that that was not going to happen ("and to reiterate, no one is trying force anyone else to learn Rust nor prevent refactorings of C code").

They've committed to not changing any displayed text ("strings"), so that translators have time to translate everything.

I'll always upvote StreetComplete.

If TypeScript still is a fad at this point, his definition of fad is far lengthier than mine is.

I'm fairly sure TypeScript will remain in popular use longer than whatever project you're working on 😅

It's a good thing we're no longer this narrow-minded, right? Right?