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Early HTTP even provided bits and pieces of a mechanism to pay for content, and browser extensions with integrated with crypto wallets have shown that it's feasible to do reasonable secure transactions within those browsers.

So, why can't I pay a dollar or two to read an interesting article, or pay something to the author of a cool github repo? Or on the other side, why can't I as an author just place <payme iban="xxx" placeholder="1 USD">Buy me a banana</payme> and be done with it?

Did the role get taken over by easy-to-use payment gateways like Stripe? Do card processors still take a fee too large for the idea to be viable?

I've recently asked if it's time to revisit the decision to make structs in maps in Go mutable, and was politely declined, with a reference to this being a refusted proposal since 2012:

https://github.com/golang/go/issues/53857

Since arrays work fine, if a is a slice or an array:

a[10].field = 42

it seems bogus that maps don't; this doesn't compile in Go if m is a map:

m[10].field = 42

In both cases, the address of the struct is calculated at runtime, as it must be known to access the field.

Instead of leaving this as a rant, let's make it a question: what's your "what is this insanity?" peeve with your favourite language?