Depending on your needs you can also break it into a columnar format with some standard compression on top. This allows you to search individual fields without looking at the rest.

It also compress exceptionally well, and “rare” fields will be null in most records, so run length encoding will compress them to near zero

See fx parquet

Postgres and MySQL/mariadb are all primarily written in C.

Contrary to what other posters here claim, most programming languages are not written in C, but are self hosted. Ie. written using themselves. This usually involves a small bootstrapping component written in C or something similar, but that is a minor part of a whole

That we stop fawning over tech CEOs

Thank you for saying this. Sometimes I feel like I sm the only one thinking like this 🙇♥️

You should probably change page content entirely, server sizey, based on the user agent og request IP.

Using CSS to change layout based on the request has long since been “fixed” by smart crawlers. Even hacks that use JS to show/hide content is mostly handled by crawlers.

I have written a bunch of Clojure in previous positions. But it has undergone the same fate that almost all functional code bases I have knowledge of (in corporate product settings): Colleagues have hard times getting into the functional mindset, and it becomes hard to maintain. Over the years it gets replaced with some more pragmatic hybrid- og OO language.

I have seen the same with projects written in Haskell, Erlang, and Elixir.

It’s all a really nice idea, but in practical reality it runs into issues with “social scaling”

EDIT: Realizing this was not super helpful. If you want to look for positions where fp can be employed I think something academia related, or a startup where there is greater technical flexibility is something to look for