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

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.

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

RawTherapee and Darktable is simply the Develop part of Lightroom.

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.

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

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.