My library is only 50k raw files, and Lightroom is not exaxtly fast either. Browsing the library, scrolling, etc. is sluggish. On a powerful workstation, 24 threads, 128gb ram, etc

But does it crash, lost some library data and require re-importing your photo library?

Nope. Well, a crash might have happened, not hundred percent sure, but it definitely stops responding a lot, for a good while.

RawTherapee and Darktable is simply the Develop part of Lightroom.

So RawTherapee/Darktable + Digikam would cover lightroom areas?

I never used lightroom, so I don't know what I might be missing.

Lightroom classic is good, the new one is complete trash as far as UI and performance goes, same with all other new Adobe products. Illustrator, Photoshop. I guess they moved to web tech on the desktop, too.

I agree with the sentiment on the new Lightroom being trash, although I do think something nice came out of Adobe's efforts of the past few years.

One thing that kept me from post-processing a lot of my pictures was the necessity of doing it on the desktop. I'd come back from holidays and didn't really make the time, I guess it can be attributed to laziness.

Nowadays however, I have a subscription for Lightroom and can import the photos on my iPad and edit them on the go, or from the comfort of my couch. I love it.

When I fire up Lightroom classic on the desktop, it downloads everything (originals) I've uploaded on the iPad from the Lightroom cloud. Although this has some inconveniences - it's just dumped into a folder without any regard for organisation - it prevents a complete vendor lock-in. Without that feature I wouldn't have considered this approach.

I love to take pictures, but post-processing is not exactly my favourite activity. I feel that all the tricks I used to get me to develop more on the desktop (e.g. getting a midi board for editing) didn't really get me anywhere, but the Adobe cloud + iPad just did the trick for me.

That’s not gameplay. Actually playing the game will look completely different. You might as well just be making an animated film.

???

What are you talking about. That's people reacting to the announcement trailer for the game. The point being that nothing I could ever produce at Facebook or Amazon would ever produce that sort of genuine reaction from people.

You said FAANG. Either way, I think you greatly overestimate the importance of a video game trailer and greatly underestimates the joy Netflix, Amazon, Facebook, etc. bring to people. Not to mention that for many, they also provide an income and livelihood. BTW: Youtube is filled with reaction videos like that for all kinds of products and stuff.

Yes, it doesn't matter if it's a programming language or another technology. That's engineers not worth keeping around, stuck in their old ways, sooner or later they'll make themselves obsolete.

I'm not a <language> programmer. I'm a programmer period.

It sounds like the parsing you needed would not need to be generalized, as you were working on projects for which you knew the requirements. In this case, writing the custom parsers should have been a simple task, and not something that would have stopped or even deterred me from using a language. Frankly, in general, writing a JSON, or even an XML parser, is not challenging and should take little time.

These days there's a multitude of both XML and JSON libs for Elixir.