Facebook getting interested in the fediverse indeed looks like XMPP or OOXML all over again. Beware of those old tactics, they are very efficient against communities.

This is a very concerning for C... and it drifts apart from C++ further. The old "C as a subset of C++" position is less and less valid. Very unfortunate.

Interesting warning about too early standardization. Don't go top-down, better go bottom-up working on each separate problem and see if something emerges.

A good reminder of what the Web really is. Yes, it's hard to add features to it, but look at the amazing backward compatibility! Everyone can write web pages and that's what matters.