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HN might be pointing the way to the future. Or it might be overly focused on things that will never take the world by storm.
by pwinnski 8y ago
HN might be pointing the way to the future.
Or it might be overly focused on things that will never take the world by storm.
- knightofmars 8y agoHN is pointing the way to the future... ...and all of the failed futures as well.
- simion314 8y agoWhat I think we see are 1 languages or tech promoted by companies like Google, MS or FB 2 developers that self promote by creating a side project using the latest buzzwords and coolest languages of the month and sharing it, some do it for the CV but others do it for learning to see what is all about. HN can't predict the future, good tech can die because is not supported by a company with money, or the company that controls it is incompetent and kills it. I am still thinking that C# and .Net could have been more popular only if MS could have just open source it from the beginning, maybe we would have now a way to do cross platform WPF apps and running them in browser with an open source Silverlight
- SeanDav 8y agoHN is a bit of an echo chamber. A very interesting and worthwhile echo chamber, but an echo chamber nevertheless. This is not a criticism, but probably an unavoidable by-product of how it works and the audience it attracts.
- nurettin 8y agoLike some sort of colourful bird mating ritual, you have to append so many explanations so as to not offend someone's trigger-happy finger and lose karma.
- OneWordSoln 8y agoIt is also just plain old human nature.
- pron 8y agoYep. And for a long while the future was Ruby, then Node.js, then it was Go. Now it's Elixir? Rust? WASM? Nim?