Interesting article, as a non-programmer I don't have a firm grasp of whether his weekend hacking test is legit or not, but I can say that our startup is alread

Interesting article, as a non-programmer I don't have a firm grasp of whether his weekend hacking test is legit or not, but I can say that our startup is already using wave, and when Google lets regular plebes like me on, I'm going in head first. The sheer amount of cruft in email conversions and the maddening quilt of chat clients will have me waving it up as soon as I'm able. That said, he does have a point that incrementalism has been the way technology has been developed and adopted in the last 50 years. The QWERTY keyboard is the most painfully obvious example of this and I can see why he would be arguing that Wave is equivalent to deploying Dvorak keyboards en masse and hoping people opt for the more efficient option. Sure, Dvorak is better, but only for people who start on it, and there's no momentum. I would love to see wave take over the way we communicate, if only to vindicate me and my rants to my family and friends about it.