Right, like this world's largest company called Apple, which gets most of the revenue from its hardware sales. Pixels are not cheap either and given its low specs (Tensor SOC), the per-unit margin has to be quite decent. OTOH, there are significant fixed development costs which you want to spread over as many devices as possible to increase the net margin.
The lackluster value and sales of Google hardware is no master plan, it's a simple incompetency.
If you think StackOverflow is the epitome of scale, then your view of the world is somewhat limited.
I worked for a flash sale site in 2008 that had to handle 3 million users, all trying to connect to your site simultaneously to buy a minimal supply of inventory. After 15 minutes of peak scale, traffic will scale back down by 80-90%. I am pretty sure StackOverflow never had to deal with such a problem.
There is nothing more enjoyable and fun than developing on a mature, boring tech stack. We might be able to keep web devs more than a year if the kneejerk choice wasn't React or Angular (Vue3 is a joy).
Who decides what is "boring"? Plenty of people have stuck with React for nearly a decade and components just as old continue to work in the latest version of React. Meanwhile, Vue 3 is such a breaking change from Vue 2 that people either abandon Vue altogether or chase bugs with the 2-to-3 bridge. Does that make React "boring and mature" compared to Vue 3? If not, why not?
They use tagging (as described also here: https://tree-sitter.github.io/tree-sitter/code-navigation-sy...). From both docs I assume `tree-sitter tags` works out of box for any language that has a parser. (Since neither doc instructs to save a custom config for tag extraction query, I assume every language plugin provides tagging queries).
