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None of those examples are relevant.

They seem pretty relevant. Those things didn’t go away, but they also didn’t remove the need for programmers (the way their sales people said they would).

You’re right. It belongs on the list.

I was told several times that my programming career was ending, when the first low-code/no-code platforms released.

I do wonder about inventions that actually changed the world or the way people do things, and if there is a noticeable pattern that distinguishes them from inventions that came and went and got lost to history,

Cool thought experiment.

Comparing the first iPhone with the release of BlockChain is a pretty solid way to consider the differences.

We all knew that modern phones were going to be huge. We didn’t need tech bros to tell us to trust them about it. The usefulness was obvious.

After I got my first iPhone, I learned a new thing I could do with it - by word-of-mouth - pretty much every week for the first year.

Even so, Google supposedly under-estimated the demand for the first Android phones by almost a factor of 10x.

BlockChain works fine, but it’s not changing my daily routine every week.

AI is somewhere in between. I do frequently learn something new and cool that AI can do for me, from a peer. It’s not as impactful as my first pocket computer phone, but it’s still useful.

Even with the iPhone release, I was told “learn iPhone programming or I won’t have a job.” I actually did not learn iPhone programming, and I do still have a job. But I did need to learn some things about making code run on phones.

But I’m too busy being confused by the behaviors of libraries I previously didn’t read the documentation for, to read the documentation for every new library I adopt.

(This is sarcasm…mostly.)

But will it fuck up my formatting when I add an image?

Ctrl+Shift+F+U+F

And maybe they figure EU leaders aren’t smart enough to ask for reproducible builds.

…or if any critical part of the data processing happens in US soil…

was there some other reason?

Compiling to an additional OS, today, can be a pain in the ass.

Compiling to an additional OS, a couple decades ago, was a monumental ongoing never ending pain in the ass.

It’s weird to me that there isn’t a full four paragraph rant in the Wikipedia article about J# - just complaining about how everyone’s first “Hello World” was guaranteed to fail to compile due to bugs in the file rename algorithm.

The usability failures in J# are the stuff of legend.

Thanks. I hate being reminded about J#.

I have never of anyone calling C# Java.

Sounds like you missed the fun of it’s first release. We (C# developers) all called it Microsoft Java.

Edit: I remember answering the question "What the hell is C#?!” with: “It’s Microsoft Java”.

It gave folks new to the language all they need to know: It aimed to solve the same problems as Java, and didn’t have Sun’s commitment to Open Source behind it.

I don’t want to top that. And I’m so sorry you had to go through that.

I built an MSI file once.

I love asking,

“What sick fuck thought this was an acceptable solution?”

And a few moments later:

“Oh. It was me.”

Thank you. My big question from this list was “WTF is a Shenmue?”

That’s wise. No one is completely sure what happened in Disco Season one, anyway, due to the lack of lighting budget…

that’s because Discovery is just bad fan fiction.

It makes Enterprise worth watching.

How dare you!

I understand not liking Discovery, but I draw the line at encouraging a rewatch of Enterprise!

(I’m kidding. Enterprise wasn’t all that bad… Mostly.)

Plan to share a link so the hackers can check your work?

I’ve heard good things about vibe coding primary use cases for common problems.

I have experience vibe coding unusual use cases. The AI was worse than useless for those.

So I’m curious how the corner cases and security stuff on common problems turn out. (I always get that kind of thing from a library, so I have no experience vibe coding those cases.)

(Genuinely curious. And obviously, no worries if you don’t want to risk sharing.)

Docker Compose brought “works on my machine” to the cloud.