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Post #2424912

2026-02-18 13:51 UTC

We seem to have largely stopped innovating on trying to lower barriers to programming in favour of creating endless new frameworks and libraries for a vanishingly small number of near-identical languages. It is the mid-2020s and people are wringing their hands over Rust as if it was some inexplicable new thing rather than a C-derivative that incorporates decades old type theory. You know what I consider to be genuinely ground-breaking programming tools? VisiCalc, HyperCard and Scratch.

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  • @jarkman@chaos.social 2026-02-18 13:52

    @jonathanhogg@mastodon.social That's the kind of talk you usually hear just before someone invents themselves a new language. Just saying.

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