I'm reminded of the first industrial products. Handmade meant crummy and for poor people, whereas something from a production belt meant precision-engineered. B

I'm reminded of the first industrial products. Handmade meant crummy and for poor people, whereas something from a production belt meant precision-engineered. But now that everyone can afford, say, a quality solid-state amplifier, suddenly it's hip to have the expensive point-to-point tube amp again. It's really about status and conspicuous consumption, but the snobbery is hidden behind notions of quality and authenticity. Now let's circle back to software. High-level programming languages, interpreted languages, libraries, frameworks... all used to be really cool. Until people realized that now everyone can learn how to code, so there's a need for something to separate the elite from the plebeians, something to separate the software engineers from the script kiddies... how about handmade programming, maybe that'll do the trick?