We can never escape those Enterprise Beans ..../s

Not sure how you can avoid javascript other than with htmx I guess

Just saw on github it doesn't :(

I wonder if it will run OS/2 ?? that would be fun

"I don't know anything about your apple device, I prefer to own my devices and not have somone else dictate what I can use it for"

This is one of those things that are so easy to over think :) the Play/Pause button (I THINK - NOW I AM NOT SURE) by convention shows the Desired state because you press Play to Start but in other cases I would say it's usually the otherway around. Ie Check Box has a tick/cross etc when it's True/On/Yes/etc. I think the Play/Pause is a convention that is the exception

With the wrong color scheme its really hard to know if its' ON or OFF

Use the OS you are most comfortable with. When it comes to programmming try and learn 1 "thing" at a time. If you trying to learn Python and how to use Linux as well as Python then you learning 2 (or more..) things at once so stick with what you know for now. If you are comfortable with Linux (or Mint as you say) then stay with that because I have found running Python on Windows is a Pain but that could just be the environment we are using. Good Luck and Have fun!

It's a pity there is not 1 code example on the Front Page. I spent a few minutes trying to find a page with some code and all I found was Why, Why Not, what is different etc and not any code examples so I am out. Look at Zig within seconds I can see if I like the syntax, does it make sense to me. I would love to know what Pony lang looks like. I might like it but it seems like

I think this is more a marketing thing. Gitea is on GitHub too, so it can be found.. 10 years ago it would have been on Sourceforge.

You just did

Consistency is very important espcially later on. When the user or client is talking about X and it's called Z in the Database and Y in the code this will cause so much confusion. I think the fact you care means you are good programmer. Don't loose that.