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The success of this reinvention hinges on being able to attract the next generation of hackers. The future belongs to them and they should be encouraged to inve
by dman 14y ago
The success of this reinvention hinges on being able to attract the next generation of hackers. The future belongs to them and they should be encouraged to invent is as they see fit. The risk is that throwing away the existing way of doing things pushes away people who are active contributors and have know how about the codebase. So far the desktop is losing because the next generation of talent seems to be fixated on the web stack at this point.
- na85 14y agoThat fixation will change. We're seeing a resurgence of the server-terminal paradigm that was popular in a bygone era. People enjoy the idea of not having to sync their data because it's all "on the cloud" (eyeball roll) and because they have a 3G modem. Sooner or later that enthusiasm will fizzle out.