“Hand-written assembly” is not more powerful than any other Turing-complete language (including Perl and Python), just more painfully slow and prone to human error to write. (Perhaps if you have a special case requiring speed (such as the processing being done in a tight loop in a financial trading app and the results needing to beat rival trading systems by milliseconds or something equally esoteric), it’d make sense, but in that case, a modern compiler (for, say, C/C++/Rust or similar) would yield comparable results, and if a lot is riding on those milliseconds, you’d eschew code and build a FPGA that pulls the data out of memory buffers in hardware or similar.)

So these days, the only use case for hand-writing assembly language (other than low-level OS/firmware programming or compiler development) is performative Feats Of Strength, where the challenge is the point. And in that case, you’d be trying to do something heroically challenging, like writing an Atari 2600 demake of Baldur’s Gate or something.

What, no LaTeX?!

Grep is as high power as vim and emacs??? In what universe?

Programming languages is way too broad a category. There's a lot of variation in both power and difficulty.

What about the one that should be in the top left, both high power and easy, interns.

Pretty sure text editors allow a lot of power, in the upper half in any case

AI chatbots should be near I Ching divination.

I Ching divination

That's why I use icsh, the I Ching Shell.

What, no Microsoft Word?

Spreadsheets are actually running the world.

I, as one of the ten people on the planet who writes awk scripts, noticed the most powerful text processing tool is missing.

I'm environmentally damaged enough to honestly think that perl should be further left. It's pretty easy, but I'm the first to admit that perl code looks like ass.

I like that this clearly articulates that text editors are just whatever the hell vim & emacs are, with training wheels

I've never actually had to use m4 so I went and looked at its Wikipedia article. The example on there feels like pure madness, and now I understand why it was put in the lower power but more difficult category

My pandoc scripts are fairly easy to use, I think...

WISYWIG managing nested bullet point or numbered lists should be in right-bottom corner.

WYSIWYG editors rock. Long live TeXmacs!