Most programmers are programmers and a lot of programmers really do inexplicably find selling points like these compelling:
Boo hoo I got canceled for being a homophobic wingnut. Mozilla has gone woke. Install this chromium fork #93726 to own the libs!
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Yes, true. You would expect SO to know better, but alas.
Most programmers are programmers and a lot of programmers really do inexplicably find selling points like these compelling:
Technically correct the best kind of correct.