"Boring" in the sense used here really means something like "reliable" or "low-maintenance". Think of the old Maytag Repairman ads: he's just sitting there wai

"Boring" in the sense used here really means something like "reliable" or "low-maintenance". Think of the old Maytag Repairman ads: he's just sitting there waiting for a call that never comes because Maytag washing machines are so reliable, get it? Interestingly, this kind of boring can be measured. On the other hand, the kinds of things that one finds fun is idiosyncratic and subjective. I think it's an important distinction: we can argue about "boringness" with data, but a discussion of "exciting" software is much more like a discussion of personal tastes. Take Elm for example, it's a highly reliable system for building front-end web apps, so in that sense it's very boring (in a good way!) but whether or not you find it exotic or exciting has a lot to do with your personal experience with Functional languages and such. To some people Elm seems like a toy, while to others it's a strange new world.