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mncharity · 2026-10-28T16:22:40.000Z

70's software is closed-source bespoke reimplementation; 80's Dream of reusable software components; 90's Building the Dream; 00's Living the Dream; 10's Everything is amazing but; 20's transition to...; 30's what??? Open-{source, reference implementation, tests, specs, design docs, gist, ...?} bespoke reimplementation?

中国特色. And an even larger gap vis optimized-for-pharma US IP config (Industrial Policy).

dal · 2026-10-28T17:45:32.000Z

I'm not sure we have been living the dream with shitty desktop web apps running in a full browser each taking several gigs of ram for playing some music or chatting with coworkers and friends. Electron and its likes are the scourge of software world.

I'm happy if LLMs and the semiconductor shortage will create a renaissance of native applications.

Grimeton · 2026-10-28T18:49:40.000Z

Javascript and people doing things with it that they shouldn't is at the core of the problem.

cowlevel · 2026-10-28T19:10:16.000Z

If it wasn't JavaScript it would be something else. What's the slowest machine on this list? https://danluu.com/input-lag/

viklove · 2026-10-28T19:31:38.000Z

The core of the problem is a profit incentive and an economy based on greed. Our society is designed to extract value, not to offer the best products/services to the general population.