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On Xerox, Apple and Progress (1996)
- tracker1 12y agoInteresting, looking at this from 19 years in the future. I'm pretty sure in 1996, the thought of JavaScript and the Web Browser becoming the dominant application UI platform would have sounded absolutely absurd to most, and many still. I think that there's a bit of a resurgence with regards to development concepts and constructs from the 70's and 80's. Functional ideas are starting to take hold again, go and rust are bringing updates to older paradigms as well. It would be nice to see a larger community gather behind a more clean unixy implementation though. With Linux, Windows and OSX taking up several GB on disk for the OS and basic tools, it's kind of ridiculous. Although less open in practice, I was hoping for a desktop release centered around a smaller linux core than typical desktops today. It just hasn't taken hold. Windows is thinning up a bit, and OSX may as well too. Who knows what the landscape will look like in another 20 years.