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You correctly point out a lot of the crap, but there's good news too. One thing that's really cool is the explosion of new programming languages. In the last d
by tharne 5y ago
You correctly point out a lot of the crap, but there's good news too.
One thing that's really cool is the explosion of new programming languages. In the last decade or two, we've seen Clojure, Rust, Go and a whole bunch of others come out. And it's not just that a lot of these languages are better in a technical sense, many of them are also a lot of fun to code in, which after all is why most of us got into programming in the first place.
The past decade or so has also seen desktop linux become a delightful daily driver. And, as much as I love to bitch about electron, it's made a lot more new apps available for linux.
Let's also not forgot Bitcoin coming into it's own. With all the noise in the space it's easy to forget that at as recently as 15 years ago, decentralized digital money was thought to be an impossible problem to solve.
- feet 5y agoConsidering the current state of energy usage and the environment, I can't really call bitcoin a win