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by refulgentis 868 days ago
Honestly and respectfully, would you be clambering to fund this?

It's disturbing how little actually came out of dynamic land, and now there's a schism where the founders are pasting QR codes to hands and have as their 3rd bullet point "GPU FFI shaders"?

Does any of that scream fundamental UX research, or the future of computing?

To me, it's just another tired retread of half-baked messianic thinking that tails off into nowhere as the hero complex devolves into a series of half-baked ideas designed to scratch an individuals daily itch, rather than a central purpose.

Google had stuff like this internally for quite some time, through much later than most people would guess.

The thing is there just isn't some vastly superior paradigm sitting out there to fix computing with. The industry is mature enough that if something truly good and helpful exists, even in parts, it's quickly implemented.

One ray of light might be that the rate of change is fast enough that there are likely to be gaps emerging over the next decade.

But they're not going to be found in this sort of fashion.

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Is computing good enough as a literacy that anyone can use it to model complex ideas? Computers are simulators and can be used to model almost anything, sadly most people just use it to model old media (images, movies, text documents). As an example, can your [insert elderly relative] program it the same way he/she can probably string together multiple words to express a complicated idea.