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.
Replies (1)
-
@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.