Clojure is hands-down the best programming language I've used.
That said, I'm still holding out hope that it'll be hosted on top of something other than the JVM -- frankly, the JVM keeps me from using it more than I otherwise would.
I can't help but wonder if this is in any way motivated by the fact that ENS could be viewed as a threat/competitive in a hypothetical future where web3 becomes more mainstream.
Regardless of how you feel about "web3", I think most people (especially in technology) should see this as a problem and aspire to a brighter future where governments/corporations aren't making decisions about what people can and can't see on the web, especially when they're inherently biased.
To be fair, I think this is mainly aimed at developers (and ETH ecosystem developers specifically).
While I don't disagree that there's a "vocabulary" problem (e.g. "dank-sharding"), in a perfect world, a normie would largely just interact with an application without needing to know any of this.
Spot on: This underlying infrastructure isn't meant for "regular people", it's meant for the people who directly build atop it. By way of example from TradFi, the news updates from SWIFT about ISO-20022 is similarly laden with jargon:
You say that from the standpoint of readers at this HN blog page, but this blog post is the top blog post and first one seen on https://blog.ethereum.org/. Many people who want to understand what they are looking at prior to purchase would look at this page and quickly close it, never to invest using etherium.
Do you download binary utilities for execution, when every page on the website (or app store) is filled with made-up jargon? That's the issue that I see here.
Ethereum.org is owned by the Ethereum Foundation (hence the EF in the url) which exists to support the ecosystem from a technical and business perspective, not convince users to use Ethereum or invest in it.
Members of the Ethereum Foundation have been critical of Ethereum and called out overzealousness in the past, warning that the price might not be rational.
There's countless examples of niche jargon on the front page of HN every day. Sometimes it has to do with Rust, or Zig, or Protobuf, or an obscure file spec. Today the jargon happens to be about blockchain consensus engineering.
