Let's just get this out of the way first - you can choose ONLY if you are a dev. If you are a user you can choose jack shit, be miserable about it and pay for the privilege. I know us non programmers are still considered NPCs in the parlance of the youths, but we should still say it
this post was submitted on 27 May 2025
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What do you mean that you can't choose the tools you want to use? Why do you need to be a developer for the freedom of choice??
Well you choose - revit or archicad? You can choose something else so you can make your work impossible. As soon as you go to something specialist you are stuck in Monopoly
Eh, users can still learn a little, and fiddle with their personal stuff. My little "corebooted Chromebook running Q4OS Linux looking like Windows XP, with background from Apple and the start menu labeled as Finder" brings me joy every time I use it. It was and is pure fun.
And the great thing about enthusiastic devs is that they tend to be happy to spread the joy of their own personal projects and help, unless they get overwhelmed by help requests.
Oh absolutely, I just mean we usually have no choice in our tools. There are rare exceptions, like using blender instead of something autodesk, but I can't think of others similar to that
I feel like this article is exactly the type of thing it's criticizing.
"The future" is whatever the majority of young people decide it will be, regardless of it's the past or not.
But that's not really accurate. Past decisions and events have influence in our future too. People can't decide to do everything they want to have. In example there are laws in place to protect us from whatever dumb decision young people may decide to do. Even a president can't do whatever he wants.
Therefore, it's not regardless of its past.
I find it funny that you call Lisps and Emacs obsolete and dead, when they are more alive than ever. I agree with most of the article, but I think you ignore what makes these two great