And for example, it's a weird signal to me when somebody believes the reason X11 has baggage is because it does byte swapping for endianness. This statement alone taints the entire rationale for the project.

Smart pointers are good. People were doing them outside the standard in the late 90s.

Lambdas are a good feature.

I disagree that they should only add HTTPS and call it done. They should also add some kind of signing check before running the payload.

If anything I'd say HTTPS is optional if they do that part.

Speaking personally, I don't see enough movies or do enough ride shares to want to subscribe to AMC or Waymo, but Doordash would make sense. Maybe it's OK for me to pay a higher price for the ~1 time per year I use those other services.

You mean the celts who were conquered by Romans who were conquered be Angles who were conquered by Normans? Who speak this bastard language we're using now, where most vocabulary is Latinate upon bones of Germanic?

Ironically I feel like it captures the spirit of the then-coming 2010s boom more than the climate in 2007, though some of the language it's using is decidedly pre-mobile and more "web 2.0"-ish.

So the claim is the cost isn't coming down enough to make it make sense for a lot of uses in the long term. When I hear that next to the most wild claims, some by influential people, that the entire white collar workforce is going to be replaced very shortly, it's a bit of a useful reality check.

From my memory of using a TI-83 in the late 90s, I would not be surprised if the keypad UI injects tokens directly based on your keypress, rather than "tokenizing the text". I seem to recall, for example, you could not position the cursor in the middle of a BASIC token, and if you managed to type out the tokens it would not work; you needed to find the right menu item to inject the correct token.

Predicting the timing of such a thing is notoriously difficult. I don't think being wrong about timing 2 years ago means there won't be a correction.

> No one cares anymore.

I never cared about this.

I think this captures something that I've been searching for the words for. (Maybe I should have gotten an LLM to write the words for me.) Some of the biggest AI boosters are the kind of dev that would have cared about the new frameworks of the last 3 months. They had a "the framework does all the thinking for me" attitude already, so it is easy for AI to slot into that.