[purple-leafy]

Product / Tech:

    - Retro game engines
      - Doom engine
      - Wolfenstein engine
      - Raycasting
    - Console/PC emulators getting more popular
    - New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc)
    - Linux distros
    - Programming
      - Anything low-level
      - C , C#, Rust
      - Anything without the term "AI" in it
    - Retro phones

[rostakagmfun]

Interesting take, can you share you reasons for all things retro computing gaining popularity?

[purple-leafy]

typical software engineers are getting sick of AI, the large majority of software engineers are working in webdev

I think they will start migrating to lower level programming (to escape AI to an extent), and the most enjoyable lower level programming projects are:

- Writing your own language

- Retro game emulators

- Operating Systems

- Graphics programming

[JoeyJoJoJr]

Also I think IDEs for retro consoles will become more prevalent, and there is the added benefit of of multiplayer for free with many emulators offering rollback netcode.

[mnky9800n]

I feel like retro is already in

[heyitssim]

interesting why so?

shameless plug: if you like retro-games I'm working on https://pixelbrawlgames.com

[purple-leafy]

I said in the other comment, but I think AI/LLM's will drive many devs away from commercial development (web development/frontend) towards backend and lower level languages