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Re: Ask HN: Next big thing in Computer Science or tech according to you?

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Post by brokenmachine » Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 1:03 AM UTC

eimrine wrote: post #3

Blockchain has a lot of potential, I believe what we have seen is not even 1% of what we are going to see in the next 20 years.

Any examples or categories? I think blockchain is interesting but don't see the real-world usefulness to be honest, other than bitcoin. Most applications can just use a database.

Re: Ask HN: Next big thing in Computer Science or tech according to you?

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Post by brokenmachine » Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 1:06 AM UTC

Personally I'm really hoping for better private decentralized apps and networks.

A way to escape the google silos and protect your private data from mass surveillance, but without losing the usability. Things like locutus, solid, etc.

Re: Ask HN: Next big thing in Computer Science or tech according to you?

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Post by minhmeoke » Wed, Sep 21, 2022, 7:23 PM UTC

verdverm wrote: post #4

CUE(lang) and that we finally have a proper language for configuration and schemas. I think it will be significant in DevOps and anywhere we use Yaml or json for config. https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com

You might also be interested in the Dhall config language which has a great philosophy of preventing errors through correct design: https://docs.dhall-lang.org/discussions/Safety-guarantees.ht...

Re: Ask HN: Next big thing in Computer Science or tech according to you?

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Post by verdverm » Thu, Sep 22, 2022, 6:14 PM UTC

minhmeoke wrote: post #23

verdverm wrote: post #4

CUE(lang) and that we finally have a proper language for configuration and schemas. I think it will be significant in DevOps and anywhere we use Yaml or json for config. https://cuelang.org | https://cuetorials.com

You might also be interested in the Dhall config language which has a great philosophy of preventing errors through correct design: https://docs.dhall-lang.org/discussions/Safety-guarantees.ht...

I checked out Dhall back when I also found CUE. Definitely do not like it. The syntax is too different from existing configuration languages to see mass adoption. CUEs philosophy is much better outlined and reasoned, and comes from the same place as containers, kubernetes, and Go.

Another benefit of CUE over Dhall is that I can use CUE from Go. Very few people use Haskell, Go is an industry standard at this point