I downloaded Firefox from mozilla.org and configured a ~/.local/share/applications/firefox.desktop file so that it appears in the GNOME Shell menu. It auto-updates and works great.
I love everything about this project. I know a lot of developers that have been using i3 for years, and because of this project when it's time for them to upgrade to Wayland, they won't have to alter their workflow.
#sway on freenode has an active community and the lead developer (SirCmpwn) is very responsive. It's a very healthy project.
The next step is getting rid of Xwayland entirely, which for most of the community means Wayland-native browsers and terminal emulators. Hopefully Chrome and Firefox complete their Wayland port sometime soon.
This breaks the expectation that if a website is using HTTPS the connection is encrypted from source to destination. I'm not sure it's better as it's effectively giving the user a false sense of security.
The Bold Roboto [1] just looks awful on my machine. Arial [2] looked much better, and if they want to use the system font, Ubuntu [3] also looks much better.
I'm pretty sure both Node and Tornado have the same mental model of async. Both have callbacks and both have async/await functionality that makes it look more like blocking code.
The main benefit of Node as I see it is that the entire Node community uses the same IO Loop whereas Python's community is fragmented between normal sync code and multiple different IO Loops (asyncio will probably help with this).
nosurf [1] is a pretty popular CSRF protection package for Go. You need to realize that Go's built in "web framework" is extremely minimal unlike Django. It's more comparable to something like Flask, which also doesn't have CSRF protection built-in.
Those stats are very unreliable. Most Linux web browsers (including Chrome) do not send the specific distro they're being used on. Ubuntu patches Firefox to include Ubuntu in its User-Agent, but most other major distros do not.
Installing Ubuntu GNOME and then installing Cinnamon would give you a nearly identical setup. Cinnamon is basically just a replacement for GNOME Shell. You could also install Nemo if you prefer that file manager.
Go is such a simple language that I believe any decent developer could be productive with it within a week. I'm not sure the hiring argument is all that great.
