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For a lot of open source projects, there is a significant audience viewing the code itself rather than just what it does. There’s encouragement for the user to open the bonnet and look at it and also tinker with it themselves. Even if you don’t do that, there’re still ways that the craftsmanship can show through and leave the user thinking about how it was made and how it works, and there’s plenty of conventional art where the point isn’t to think about the final product but instead what went into creating it.

As for the minified JavaScript in a typical website, it’s not that different to graphic design where achieving a purpose for a business can come ahead of any priorities related to being art. Even if we say for the sake of argument that graphic design for commercial purposes is never art, it doesn’t automatically mean that anything else that uses the same techniques, like drawing, can never be art.

There are also kinds of art that people produce that are never intended to be experienced by anyone else, e.g. a doodle in a diary, so I’d say there could still be art in code that was only ever seen by its creator and which was totally obfuscated when given to users as an app or website.

No, it’s from a random stranger, not their partner, and the stranger feels that as they (stranger) are in a ‘relationship’ with bot-Willow, human-Willow is effectively cheating on them by having a human partner. Hence obviously nuts or bait.

This is a common misconception. Trans people actually have a directional air dash.