The last bullet point is not really that common anymore.

“except” is also used in Pascal (or at least the main derivatives of it), but not sure if that’s older than its use in Python or not.

A Media company owned by Telefonica.

I once worked for one of the largest media companies in my country and there was a project where they wanted to replace reCaptcha with a partner’s system that made users watch ads and ask a question about the ad instead of typing some hard to read text.

Testing such system, I quickly realized that the captcha part of it could easily be bypassed by anyone with minimal JS knowledge (the answer was available in a global JS var), but the answer would not be accepted by the server unless the entirety of the ad video had been successfully streamed to the video component.

I still remember clearly the response I got when I reported to the PO that the system was unfit due to being easily bypassed with JS:

“no user is gonna be coding anything just to avoid typing the answer on the input”.

Shouldn’t have expected much more from the same company that had me wait for the responsible person to get back from their 1-month vacation when I reported that their customers’ full credit card information was included in the output of a publicly available URL that only required an order ID.

But I later found out that most orders in that particular project were actually made by bots with stolen credit card information (the bots would use this company’s shopping cart to validate which cards were still working so they could use it for something useful afterwards). In the end we were mostly just leaking information that had already been leaked before.

It’s not that bad by default, it just gives it a disadvantage in terms of performance, but if you care about it you can still make it run smooth and be not-that-heavy. Microsoft just doesn’t.