[mikewarot]

I think there are plenty of ways to make far better use of the hardware we currently enjoy. If you don't focus on web based stuff, but go with just what's possible in a Win32 environment, for example... it was all there in the late 1990s, VB6, Delphi, Excel, etc.

We've had quite a ride from 8 bit machines with toggle switches and not even a boot rom, nor floating point, to systems that can do 50 trillion 32 bit floating point operations per second, for the same price[1].

Remember that Lisp, a high level language, was invented in 1960, and ran on machines even slower than the first Altair.

The end of "free money" is over, as is the era of ever more compute. It's time to make better use of the silicon, to get one last slice of the pie.

[1] The Altair was $500 assembled in 1975, which is $2900 today. I'm not sure how best to invest $2900 to get the most compute today. My best guess is an NVidia RTX 4080.