I've discovered and learned about lots of interesting musicians listening to the radio station of my university

College radio is awesome.

I've found internet radio interesting, there's a ton of variety out there that you might not get on a local/national broadcast. Even within a genre, a lot of stations may routinely play the hits but introduce you to different 'sets' of other musicians. More generally on topic, I'd wonder about the approaches different stations and djs use to build their playlists.

Independent, community-supported local (to me) FM radio station (and streaming): https://threedradio.com/

They've given me some absolute gold.

Specifically independent and public music radio. Commercial FM / Clearchannel is trash in my opinion.

Same here, but with C++Builder.

My dad taught me how to code with Borland C++ Builder, and I'm forever grateful.

Why not use iced to have a native UI instead of WebView?

A console is a crippled PC, so what does console-grade mean here?

Not to be confused with Visual J++ :)

At least that's somewhat relevant. Every time I hear JJ, I remember Jay-Jay Okocha: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay-Jay_Okocha

"Now, that's a name I've not heard in a long time. A long time."

Yeah, all of the kids moved to Visual J# :)

When it comes to the mass adoption of software development tools, I believe the proven formula is: Make all of the SDK/libraries/command-line tools permissive (e.g. MIT) open source licensed; Charge for a complex visual/RAD UI designer/IDE but make sure to have a free community version for indies and smaller shops. In the past, instead of a free community version there were easily available "pirated" releases.

Nice! What's the UI toolkit?

Custom made, I've been using on some apps lately

I'd think the opposite though, with nowadays "AI"/LLMs - retrieving a domain/specialist knowledge became easier, while general software development is still unsolved. E.g. you can use LLMs for generating many well-known/documented/specified particular image processing algorithms, but creating a high-quality Photoshop-like software still needs a good generalist developer.

Raku (Perl 6) is interesting as well. I have a feeling that nobody (of significant size) adopted it in production.