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There's a big difference which is that clients have minimal lock in. Reddit has a monopoly over the community while you can easily switch clients with little lost.

Have you tried using descriptive layer names like layer 1, later 2, later 3?

That means that detection was added explicitly because this prank was done enough that it was worth it to add.

One of my classes had us design our own 8 bit processor and assembly language. It was a lot of fun designing it. It was like a little puzzle to figure out how to get features into those limitations

I think Java's verbosity has more to do with the culture than the language itself