Sadly, another case of YouTube sucking the brains out of the web. I'm much more inclined to read a blog post about Pascal than sit for an hour to listen to somebody yak.

Maybe you have it backwards and the audience is actually on YouTube and not looking for blogs. If so, then it would be sad if this were a blog post and not a video.

Maybe somebody who prefers blog posts to video will write an app that converts videos into blog posts. Seems like that should be doable with modern AI systems. Maybe it could even add and annotate images from the video. It would be an interesting feature for something like Instapaper.

> Maybe somebody who prefers blog posts to video will write an app that converts videos into blog posts.

They exist, even ones using LLMs. And they're all pretty terrible. I would absolutely use one because I can't stand getting this sort of information as a video (or even just audio). Being able to have an accurate transcript would make such videos useful to me.

But, so far, I haven't seen one that's even close to good enough.

Yes -- while many people don't want to admit it, and I myself kind of resists it, but YouTube has become a major source of content and knowledge (and increasingly TikTok, especially for younger audience). And there are lots and lots of high quality stuff, not any less worthy of a good reporting coming out of nytimes or New Yorker. It's happening, regardless of whether you want it or not.

Funny I was watching an Asmongold video where he was speculating that most people are functionally illiterate and literally can't read blog posts.

So the audience for blog posts might be even smaller than we think. If so, then a converter probably wouldn't get a lot of use.

That's not speculation, that's just talking stupid shit.

So is it that blogs are dead because Google doesn't surface them in search results anymore?

Yeah, I read through the entire article without figuring out if it answers the question in the title. Too much ambiguity and hand waving without providing any actual examples or real arguments.

> like variables, loops, and control structures—Pascal presents these concepts in a way that feels grounded and accessible

How is any of that not "accessible" in popular languages that are beginner friendly like in Python and JavaScript? "Feels", are we actually talking about technical stuff that can be substantiated with examples or just sentiments?

> But learning debugging from a language like Pascal can be eye-opening because it forces you to think about what’s really happening in your code. Profiling, too, is something Pascal can handle well, even though resources for it are scarce.

What? Debugging and profiling in procedural languages are becoming more and more standardized with IDEs like VSCode which provide a universal/common interface regardless of which language you use, and they are getting pretty good. How does debugging/profiling Pascal force me to think about my code? I have been programming for 20 years and seen lots of languages and IDEs, and I am really curious to know what I am missing. This article does not say ANYTHING specific, just these handwavy words like "eye-opening".