I’m conflicted about this post from @anildash. On one hand, I personally think programming consolidating around one language would be a bad thing. On the other hand, I’m sitting on a mountain of data indicating that’s exactly what’s happening.https://medium.com/@anildash/what-if-javascript-wins-84898e5341a …
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I just watched a tensorflow.js demo doing a thing that I've worked on for years make the same empty, unrealistic promises the past 15 years of tech have made and the only difference is it's making it accessible to people without the training to know better. That's not good.
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I see "silicon valley getting into businesses it doesn't belong in" and "tooling granting developers access to spaces they don't belong in" as exactly the same problem.
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I'm torn, because I understand this argument, but also struggle with languages and frameworks being used as barriers to keep groups of people out of certain domains of technology creation.
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My counter to that is that in the cases I refer to, the tooling/programming isn't the principle barrier to technology creation.
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Yeah, I think we're speaking to slightly different aspects. The ideal solution is technologies being widely accessible, but with ethics and social considerations intrinsic to their learning.
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Also not for nothing, there are still problems with existing technical barriers where the technical barrier isn't programming. Such as human sensing, flight control, process optimization, material science, etc.
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3D printing is a great example. Everyone jumped on board the 3D printing hype without even asking if there were open problems in material science that still limit what we can create.
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SV 5 years ago: "Soon we'll be 3D printing replacement parts for everything, like dishwashers and jet engines!" me, neck deep in a 3 year NASA nickel hot corrosion research project: "what the fuck?"
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