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Uh, there's a whole world of Open Source out there beyond cloud-related tools and JS libraries.

• seabird 8y ago
  The problem presented is very foreign to me for this reason. Maybe it's because I've never been sold on "the cloud" and have always detested web development, but I would hope that the people who were drinking the Kool-Aid would realize that there's only so many buttons you can make to push other buttons before there's nowhere left to go. A lot of the tools and libraries that I use every day are largely written and maintained by a single developer or a small group of developers. Some of these projects started before I was born and will keep on truckin' after I die. This sort of development has its ups and downs, but it's a good life in the long run.
  • lsh 8y ago
    which libraries do you use that are older than yourself? are you very young and do you intend to die soon?
    • jlokier 8y ago
      BSD 1 was released in 1978, and was itself a derivative of Unix 1 released in 1971 and started in 1969. BSD derived works (including parts of MacOS, Windows and GNU/Linux, and numerous embedded devices like routers etc.) are still going strong today. Most of the code will have been gradually replaced over such a long time, but there are libraries which can trace a lineage that far back. libc and libm come to mind. Quite a few well known, non-trivial applications still used today were, perhaps surprisingly, first released in the 1970s. Examples: grep, diff, cron, awk, make.
    • ForHackernews 8y ago
      glibc, for one.