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This is just revisionist history. We still have all the tools you talk about today. But with the benefit of much simpler languages and SDKs and tools like LLMs
by threeseed 2y ago
This is just revisionist history.
We still have all the tools you talk about today. But with the benefit of much simpler languages and SDKs and tools like LLMs to help generate code. I've seen children learn programming far faster with Swift Playground on their iPad than I had to with C++ books.
And these sort of canned experience are what helped bring technology to everyone. Which was always supposed to be the main goal.
- echelon 2y agoIt's a little bit of both in this case. Kids are all over Discord, Roblox, Minecraft, and VRchat. They're writing scripts and mods, and that's great. They're probably having a blast and a good number of them are learning a lot. But they're doing all of these things in someone else's walled garden, on buttoned up platforms that typically constrain what they can accomplish. There are fewer degrees of freedom and a lot less ownership in the work they're doing. These platforms also cost kids money. They use toxic gotcha mechanics and peer pressure to monetize. This part is strictly worse. It's a lot different carving out your own clubhouse and culture when you're renting. Especially when you're made to speak a certain language and abide by a rigid set of rules.