Hackers used to say "win" to mean succeeding at some technical task, particularly if you gain some desired advantage, and "lose" to mean failure or being put at

Hackers used to say "win" to mean succeeding at some technical task, particularly if you gain some desired advantage, and "lose" to mean failure or being put at a disadvantage. Windows 11 is a losing operating system. Tree-sitter is a huge win for code editors. Etc. "Lossage" means "the consequences of a lose" even if no data loss occurs. Some people consider systemd with its complexity and tightly coupled components to be a lose.