[dusted]

Give it a bit of time, and mainframe become the new cloud, but only after a cycle of "everything on site[1]". This is not an industry that learns from the past when scrap can be acquired by relentless fashion grifting.

[1] Edited as I discovered that premises is not simply plural of premise [2]

[2] English is not my first language

[api]

My biggest personal gripe with developer culture is how utterly historically ignorant it is.

There's a general recency bias in the field where computing knowledge works like a social media feed. New ideas and new projects are at the top, and old stuff just falls off the bottom regardless of merit. Then someone re-invents it, often claiming credit (not deliberately dishonestly because they are ignorant), and then it runs its life cycle and scrolls off the bottom. Repeat, forever.

There are a small number of things like very popular languages and OSes that have staying power but the rest of the ecosystem is fads and churn.

There is some progress under the churn, but the actual progress is almost in spite of the fashion chasing. The churn just forces us to do a ton of extra busy-work re-implementing the universe constantly and chasing fads to remain compatible.

[CharlesW]

FYI, "premise" is a foundational idea or statement, so in this case you want to use "on premises" or "on prem".

The premise of my response is that you'd find value in knowing the difference and will take it in the positive spirit in which it's intended.