[markroseman]

Some other reinvented wheel that makes one thing 10x easier but takes five years to build up an infrastructure from scratch for everything else that real programs need (an infrastructure that was already present in whatever the new thing replaced). Let a bit more time pass to forget a few other things, rinse and repeat. In other words, no net productivity gains, just churn.

[AnimalMuppet]

Came here to say this, but I'm not quite that cynical. No revolutionary change, but there will be incremental improvement. (On the other hand, we're going to keep tackling harder things, so the net gain in the rate programs are produced will be zero or negative.)

I also like the point that the "revolution" is in one aspect, not the whole thing, and it requires changing other aspects, and is therefore much less of a net win than it appears...