TBH the UK in the single market is a better outcome for the UK as well as the EU. It puts something like reins on our frequently out-of-control government and leaves one powerful neoliberal voice out of the shouting match.

You're kidding. It'd be an astonishing political victory.

I take it you didn't read the article?

It turns out that "the threadiverse" is not "Threads".

The alternative is to continue with a process that's been demonstrably successful, despite it offending your sensibilities.

Banks are prepared to pay for it. People are prepared to do it. It meets the business needs. Change is massively high-risk in a hugely conservative industry.

I think you vastly overestimate the separability of these systems.

Picture 10,000 lines of code in one method, with a history of multiple decades.

Now picture that that method has buried in it, complex interactions with another method of similar size, which is triggered via an obscure side-effect.

Picture whole teams of developers adding to this on a daily basis in realtime.

There is no "meaningful progress" to be made here. It may offend your aesthetic sense, but it's just the reality of doing business.

Given the widespread existence of wasm sandboxing, rustc itself might want to think about alternative strategies for running compiler plugins. I suspect there'd be a performance hit with such an approach, but wasm tooling is getting really good; perhaps it is minor.

Not everything, but this is.

You say that but based on past performance it's probably a lie.

In the UK, she has some claim to shared equity.

I had a small X.25 network as combination coffee-table and space-heater at one point; this was before most homes had internet. It almost cost me a divorce.

That's not correct, but it shouldn't preclude you from applying defence in depth.

I don't know where you get "listing" = "logging". It's a term (apparently archaic, today I learnt I'm old) for the text of a program.