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Darklang: https://darklang.com/ I've tried out an early version of their product, and I really like where they're headed.

I’d love to try it if they didn’t tie the language to their hosting service. I understand the necessity of the coupling but until someone can start a competing hosting company with the same language, it’s not something I’m interested in.

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1. Functional strictly typed programming patterns. It's hard to say if functional languages themselves will get adoption, but we definitely see functional patterns being used more and more in languages like Javascript, and being pushed in things like React/Redux.

2. Graphql/service-based architectures

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Oxford nanopore sequencing. If a few problems can be figured out (mainly around machine learning and protein design), then it will beat every other biological detection, diagnosis, and sequencing method by a massive amount (no 10x, but more like 100x-1000x)

It's hard to explain how big nanopore sequencing is if a few (hard) kinks can be figured out. Basically, it has the potential to completely democratize DNA sequencing.

Here is an explanation of the technology - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CGWZvHIi3i0

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If anyone is particularly brave, we are a new platform which is like Firebase, except it's built with Postgres: https://app.supabase.io We are are essentially rebuilding [DabbleDB]( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dabble_DB ) for the UI, and you get a bunch of middleware which is auto-generated: REST APIs, Realtime (CDC), auto-updating documentation. Also we will tackle some of the more difficult tasks for Postgres lik…

implement graphQL would be nice

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Geometric algebra: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tX4H_ctggYo

It makes a lot of hard physics problems (Maxwell's equations, relativity theory, quantum mechanics) much more understandable and (I'm told) unifies them in a common framework. I think it will help your average developer become comfortable with these areas of physics.

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Web Assembly It's interesting in a bunch of ways, and I think it might end up having a wider impact than anyone has really realized yet. It's an ISA that looks set to be adopted in a pretty wide range of applications, web browsers, sandboxed and cross platform applications, embedded (into other programs) scripting, cryptocurrencies, and so on. It looks like it's going to enable a wider variety of languages on the web…

I want to believe... I always thought WebAssembly had a lot of potential, however, in practice it doesn't seem to have turned out that way.

I remember the first Unity demos appearing on these orange pages at least 4 or 5 years ago, and promptly blowing me away. But, after an eternity in JavaScript years, I still dont know what the killer app is, technically or business wise. (Side note - I encourage people to prove me wrong, in fact I'd love to be! Thats whats so engaging about discussions here. I'd love to see examples of what WebAssembly makes possible that wouldn't exist without it.)

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