https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frets_on_Fire

It’s been available since 2006, works very well

Jsonb in postgres is fine, I’ve been using it for years. Much better than letting mongodb anywhere near the stack.

In the shape of a kitten

So it’s 4yo.

I love how arbitrary, cultural and opinionated that must be to work with. You’d learn something about the implimenter of the compiler by using it for a while.

The question was why do I hate it, and it was because of this. I don’t understand your confusion.

For me, it was this

https://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.php

I’m neither surprised nor unsurprised. I’m middle aged and don’t have much insight into what university students are doing day to day.

Is chatgpt the default starting point for inexperienced / early career/ students now?

Yup. Pull, merge, push, and that can be done via an ide without caring what it’s actually doing. Like all other tools

When the term leaves the original use, and those using it are referring to something distinctly different, isn’t this just natural evolution of language? English uses tonnes of words from French which are quite disconnected from the original use of the word