The thing that annoys me about the failure of distributed objects as a programming paradigm is that,

in the 1990s, you could not go anywhere in computing without being utterly hammered by the message that Objects and especially Distributed Objects were The Future Here Now, this was it, Programming was Solved Forever, if you didn't Get It you were just Wrong

and we just sorta slid from there into "actually distributed objects are terrible never use them"

but never acknowledging that change.

It's not just the 1990s Distributed Objects people being so loud and aggressive and moneyed-up and preachy

It's not just that their tech was terrible and dangerous and caused billions in security damage

It's not just that the industry changed its mind about something it was so passionately furious scorched-earth in favour of

*It's the never admitting any fault* that gets me.

The computing industry often acts like an abusive gaslighting bully, and that behaviour is still going on today.

@logan

Cultures aren't limited to individuals.

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By which I mean: there is a sense in which any group *is* a single entity.

There are always fringes and exceptions, but, I think you'll find that it's a very strong repeating pattern in the computing industry to be

1) macho and bullying
2) make repeated claims about the Next Big Thing
3) just clam up and run away if the Next Big Thing turns out bad
4) repeat back to 1 again with almost zero introspection

This is observable. If you live long enough you see multiple cycles of it.

@logan

"will you blame the naive for what they do not know?"

Pretty much yes. It's *not* just naivety at this point. It's a constant, repeated, wilful lack of interest in self-examination.

I see a repeated pattern of just this massive lack of memory and lack of interest in asking why there's a lack of memory.

It is so frustrating to watch it happen over and over and over again and it cannot just be "naivety" by now. Not after multiple decades.

@logan

"but the new people coming into the field are absolutely clueless."

But why are they clueless? When clue is the currency of the field?

Someone's deliberately choosing not to teach certain things.