Post #3557278

2026-07-03 13:47 UTC

How will programming evolve if the tools we're left with are trained on old techniques and languages and there's nowhere left to learn and collaborate on NEW things and ideas?

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@syntaxseed@phpc.social 2026-07-03 13:50

We are going to pay through the nose to get access to the information we all collectively gathered and created on sites like WikiPedia, Reddit, StackOverflow, and more. All that free labour we all did to write and curate this information... scraped and locked behind the coming #AI pricing explosion. https://www.tomsguide.com/ai/the-math-doesnt-work-why-your-usd200-ai-subscription-is-secretly-worth-thousands

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@Girgias@phpc.social 2026-07-03 14:19

@syntaxseed@phpc.social idk the issue is not people thinking about new tools, techniques and programming languages, but *evolving* existing tooling / programming languages is such a slow and tedious process. Many interesting and novel ideas *exist* but aren't in any mainstream PL. The closest we have got is Rust, and look at the reluctance and whack ideological rhetoric people have bashing it. (this is not to say it is perfect, but it's a significant improvement for a system PL)

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