Just noticed Zig with the 2023 StackOverflow survey. Stood out as a language people seemed to be happy with, and paid a lot. I tried elixir for a day and, like you, it wasn't my thing. For what it's worth (less than the cost of the electricity used in the process of posting my comment), I say maybe try Zig

I want to say that I saw a post at some point about one of the popular instances (was it beehaw or lemmy.world?) not requiring users to answer a challenge question during signup. Does it seem like email verification is sufficient to mitigate bots or does a challenge question help too, do you think? Sopuli required both. Unverified users can apparently post?

Cool! Thank you. I appreciate the detail with which you write. I'm going to give this a shot, I think!

Thank you for your extremely thoughtful response. One thing I need to research for myself is how user data, configuration, etc. is handled with a rollback. In MicroOS, the system itself is snapshotted by default (/etc for example) but user data (/home) is not. I would assume that a rollback would not touch the user data, so an upgrade could break that (e.g. database migration performed by a package update).

If you're always able to roll back, is taking the time to build and run a VM really worth it except for very critical maintenance windows? Does the VM just copy the nix config or the data too? Today, I use Vagrant for testing my Salt states. It does what I need.

I don't come from functional programming, but I'm sure I'll figure it out. Would have been nice for it not to have its own language, but I suppose that's most efficient instead of repurposing / abusing another language in a weird way.

Ah, good to know, thank you. I hadn't really considered that if the whole environment is scripted out like it is, then I wouldn't get as much benefit out of them as I do otherwise. Good tip!

Sweet, thats's a big deal for me as well. Nobody else wants to learn any kind of orchestration or anything, so I've been trying to get Salt to manage the containers I have, and it's a bit of a pain. Having them configured the same way as the server would prevent some headache, I think!

Thank you! I'm lucky in that nearly all my servers have to run on-prem, so that's not so much of a concern. I'm sure I could convince the powers that be to allow me to use a different cloud provider for the couple special cases if we couldn't continue with what we use (Linode/Akamai).

openSUSE is more my thing, but ElementaryOS might be a nice one. I believe it's a Debian fork. When I started, I used Ubuntu MATE and found it fairly intuitive, but it depends on for friend. Ironically, I've had more issues with Fedora breaking itself than Arch or Tumbleweed, so I don't recommend or use it myself. That said, it's pretty popular anyway, so I'm probably just special