Exactly. Dig around in C land and you’ll find 100s of opinions, even more libs and toolkits that came and went out of fashion. Web stacks are “computing” to i

Exactly. Dig around in C land and you’ll find 100s of opinions, even more libs and toolkits that came and went out of fashion. Web stacks are “computing” to industry right now. In the 80s and 90s it was OS and database. If low-level had the old economic attention, we’d see the same activity and mess as we did in the 80s and 90s. Everyone has a compiler to tell you about, and a build system DSL that’s just right for your problem! But big corp largely controls that and so a new layer of abstraction was added via web, and we’re seeing a shift now to less UI, and machine driven decision making that just gives us the next step in the recipe. Frankly I don’t mind technology for navigating human society; buying stuff and literal navigation. I still unplug with musical instruments and the forest. The addictive applications we’ve built in technology; games, social and multimedia, got really banal for me a long time ago. If I hear things like “Itsa me, Mario” or something about Halo I recoil at the cringe. I guess I don’t want my psychedelic noise wrapped up in branding and consumerism.