[xqyf]

So why post in a thread that's implicitly about little-known or emerging tech?

"The best under-the-radar car? It's a horse and buggy I tells ya!" Every one of these posts on HN has to have a hot take that's contrarian.

[jl6]

I’m completely serious. There’s a ton of very old boring software that is still somehow little-known to some developers. It’s under the radar the way soil is under the radar - hiding in plain sight, ignored by the folk looking to the sky when the problem they actually have is how to grow some plants.

I’m also genuinely excited that there is growing momentum away from software churn, because we’re not going to solve the complexity crisis with another framework.

[narag]

Some tech appears before its time has come. It gets some popularity but stagnates because some complementary development isn't there yet.

Some form of tablets and smartphones were there years before the iPhone or iPad.