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Something that AI, VR, Blockchain, Metaverse etc all have in common is that nerds refuse to believe that tech they personally think is cool has no mass market potential
Honestly I get it. I love writing toy programming languages and retro game engines even though I'm well aware (to paraphrase Thomas Watson) that there is a world market for maybe 5 of these
The difference is that nobody is promising investors trillion dollar returns on their toy game projects
Chris Lattner on Swift:
“#Swift, the original idea was factor complexity (…) massively failed, in my opinion (…) Swift has turned into a gigantic, super complicated bag of special cases, special syntax, special stuff”
the whole interview with Chris Lattner https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovYbgbrQ-v8
Todays Xcode tip: Ctrl + M
can’t live without this.🤣 #buildinpubilc #xcode #swift
To get the level of specificity needed to ask a computer to perform tasks will need dedicated jargon not just regular English. Which over time you will shorten with abbreviations and symbols for conciseness.
And then you’d have reinvented programming languages.
Panic is publishing a new game: Thank Goodness You're Here!, by Coal Supper. It's a comedy slapformer, quite English in tone. Madness!!
One of the best articles I’ve ever read, “What Shape are You?”: https://tynan.com/shapes/
If you're a software engineer, manager, designer, PM, you should read this. It's so good.
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