Slightly off-topic, unpopular opinion: the coolest area of software development today, as in "look-at-us-babe-we-are-still-rocking-it," is audio plugins for mus

Slightly off-topic, unpopular opinion: the coolest area of software development today, as in "look-at-us-babe-we-are-still-rocking-it," is audio plugins for music producers. And I say this because, despite attempts to the contrary, most plugins are sold for a fixed amount of cash in a pay-once use-forever fashion. Audio-plugin developers not only get to treat their customers as something else other than subscribers, they also get to play with cool mathematical toys like Fourier Transforms, Wavelets, Short-time-fourier-transform, and a zillion others. It's the only industry where geeks get to be rockstars to the rockstars.