About Artanis itself... It looks really cool! Scheme is such a nice language to code and hack with; but, how safe would it be to expose it directly?
I see they are dogfooding on the Guix packages website, so... I'm guessing it's pretty well tested.
If you have really good Scheme programmers, who know their system, and built it competently, it's probably safer to expose that than your average conventional system.
(Example: A system in Scheme was the first to get a particular certification for sensitive data hosting on cloud servers. Partly because the very small team that developed it knew the stack inside and out, and could do whatever needed to be done, in a smart way.)
(Meanwhile, say, a consulting firm-led team who got a contract for a comparably complex system, and billed for 10 or 100 times the seat-warmers, with huge and ridiculously complex stacks they didn't understand... would just flounder, focus on appearances in sprint tasks, and churn out things implemented in poor ways, and with a large number of vulnerabilities, and probably take a lot longer before they could deliver a system that would survive the first day of use.)
I have particular personal experience with an app that could be done within several months with handful of people but was developed over several years by team of 50. I was flabbergasted at first but you need to understand politics first.
What system was this?
It's a weird time for art. A lot of people's immediate reaction to genuine expression these days is "cringe".
I suppose that's always been the case to some degree, but it feels more prevalent now with internet-level attention span and broadcasting breadth.
- Irrelevant noise at the beginning of the landing page.
- "What is it" is under the FAQ section, which has a heading that is the same size as the parent heading.
- It consumes all horizontal space.
- At least there are no images of fake people
- It's in an <h1> on top of the page
- `max-width: 60em` is absolutely reasonable
That's a great thing. Sites which restrict text to a narrow column are a horrible reading experience. I have a large monitor and I wish to use a large monitor!
As another commenter pointed out, the poem is a parody of a Yeats poem. An an extract from another of his poems might offer some insight into the reactions...
What need you, being come to sense,
But fumble in a greasy till
And add the halfpence to the pence
And prayer to shivering prayer, until
You have dried the marrow from the bone
That is no country for old men. The young
In one another's arms, birds in the trees,
—Those dying generations—at their song