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What you are experiencing is called nostalgia. Computers still coalesce around a set of standards, the hardware is still a black box, the software is more relia
by Comevius 5y ago
What you are experiencing is called nostalgia. Computers still coalesce around a set of standards, the hardware is still a black box, the software is more reliable than it used to be.
The beauty of it is that the you can build things without having to reason about the machine and it's operating system. But you can do that too if you want.
Nothing has been shredded, there is just much more of everything.
> nothing is compatible with 90% of everything.
The Web standards, Vulkan, the OpenDocument format, C11 and so on.