I get the feeling that most consumer software is consolidating on a single universal platform (the web). Whereby soon the web browser will essentially the gateway through which most users do their computing.
Rob Pike wrote Systems Software Research is
Irrelevant [1], which I recommend you give a read based off the question.
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I get the feeling that most consumer software is consolidating on a single universal platform (the web). Whereby soon the web browser will essentially the gateway through which most users do their computing.
Rob Pike wrote Systems Software Research is Irrelevant [1], which I recommend you give a read based off the question.
[1] - http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf
From the paper -Programmability, once the Big Idea in computing, has fallen by the wayside.
Can you help me understand what’s this idea about?
the paper gave words to what i am feeling these days. It could all be summarised to “Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination“.
Thanks for the link.