Modern, but sane syntax (readable), good defaults (strong typing, null safety...), good-enough runtime performance, good APIs and tooling out of the box, cross-platform (also hot-reload on some, AOT). The list goes on, what specifics do you care about more?
Basho team was very kind to open source contributions in ~2011-12: I've written an open source Riak client in Dart, and they had sent me t-shirts (the quality ones that are rare today). Nice treats for a fun project :)
Why do you think it must be one thing or the other? It can be better than Javascript, used for Flutter and app development, and also cross-platform compiled and used for backend.
I remember a similar read. I think it also helped that armies become more disciplined, could march longer (coffee was a stimulant vs. alcohol), also the workforce had fewer errors. Any chance that somebody knows the reference?
Depends on the definition of widespread use, but e.g. CockroachDB and YugabyteDB offer scaling of a subset of Postgresql features (and extending on the cluster capabilities).
Nevertheless, Citus is now a promising open source alternative.
I don't really care if somebody blocks a random port of sshd. I just don't understand why people are eager to block public https traffic, which is exposed to the public internet anyway.
Shouldn't you protect that endpoint, regardless of the traffic coming from tor or not? It is really cheap to get traffic through domestic VPN proxies, so a dedicated attacker will get to it anyway...
I use tor for exploring topics that I don't want to tie to my regular profile (ranging from professional software development, through health care issues, but also hobbies, fiction and nsfw content). Having these browsing in a separate profile and also IP address makes it much more relaxed to look for interesting stuff on the internet. (I am not really fond of advertisement that tries to sell me whatever I've visited in the past month, on unrelated pages.)
It saddens me that the default response is ban, increasingly so for services that need account, but even just reading a webpage can become tedious or impossible :(
Please, do not ruin this option, because even though you may not use it today, you may need it in the future.
Note: I also use tor for low volume crawling. When high volume is needed, it is more favorable to subscribe for domestic VPN proxies, so you may be blocking tor, but you won't block those ranges, and the robots will get their content anyway.
Curious: how would you imagine it working if there were such a graph db?