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I was also hesitating over that line. Maybe it's implied that computers enter new business areas all the time, which certainly is true. I have been in the game
by jacobush 7y ago
I was also hesitating over that line. Maybe it's implied that computers enter new business areas all the time, which certainly is true. I have been in the game long enough to notice the same patterns of explosive growth and associated API chaos etc etc. Nowadays you can do everything in Node.Js for instance, but first you had to "reimplement all things!" except in many cases they didn't know (or care) they were reimplementing.
I usually snark on Node.js but not really in this case, I understand well when the platform imposes a moat and it's easier to just re-do than integrate. Ain't nobody got time for that... it's still something of a tragedy but it's not something we have an easy fix for.