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I mean, web development is kinda like that 40 year guy who feels "in" using Facebook. As an industry it's 25 years old and approaching maturity. The author ci
by nostrademons 5y ago
I mean, web development is kinda like that 40 year guy who feels "in" using Facebook. As an industry it's 25 years old and approaching maturity. The author cites Node and TypeScript as where the cool kids are, but that was where the cool kids were 8 years ago.
The cool kids today are into cryptocurrencies, AI, and robotics. Even there, some of the frameworks you probably think of bleeding edge are already losing mindshare. TensorFlow is giving way to JAX, Bitcoin already gave way to Ethereum which is itself getting eclipsed by Algorand, Cardano, and Solana.
- p1esk 5y agoThe cool kids today are into cryptocurrencies, AI, and robotics That too is where the cool kids were 8 years ago... Even I was into all that 8 years ago and I was never a "cool kid". I have no idea what the cool kids are into these days. AI is still hot though, so perhaps they are building GPT-4.
- nostrademons 5y agoStill there, just different frameworks. Think of AI 2012 = Web 1995, TensorFlow = Netscape, PyTorch = IE, and Jax = Firefox. We're at about 2004 and Chrome hasn't been invented yet. There's probably another "pole" of the ecosystem (analogous to server frameworks like Rails & Django) that also hasn't been invented yet. Or in the crypto world, Bitcoin 2009 = WWW 1989. Ethereum 2015 = Netscape 1995. Facebook Libra/Diem 2019 = IE5 1999, except less successful. Actually useful cryptocurrencies haven't been invented yet, although they probably exist in nascent form. Think of how the web came to be primarily used for social media, communications, discussions, information - all of which existed in the form of Fark, SomethingAwful, Xanga, etc. in 1999, but MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Reddit, YouTube, Yelp, AirBnB etc. were all in the far-off future.