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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by zimablue »

For me, I'd like online IDEs to be standard (and therefore equally good) and graph wikipedias for arguments (like Argumans but mainstream).

I can see the advantages of both of these and imagine (and have seen people) build them so I assume someone will fully crack this in the next few years and we'll all be using this.

What might be around the corner that I'd love: someone makes a mainstream general purpose visual programming language (or tools in IDEs using languages that are indistinguishable - revenge of smalltalk)

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by mclehman »

mark_edward wrote: post #128
sigjuice wrote: post #103

Earlier quoted context omitted.

From crystal-lang.org, Crystal is a compiled language I never understood the phrase compiled language .

Do you genuinely not understand what they mean (that it produces binaries and isn't run in an interpreter or VM)?

I think their aim was to highlight the distinction between a language and an implementation of that language and possibly argue that only a particular implementation should be referred to as compiled/interpreted.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by Rmilb »

splintercell wrote: post #20
aakilfernandes wrote: post #13

Ethereum's Casper https://github.com/ethereum/research/blob/master/casper4/pap... It aims for more economically secure public blockchains with shorter confirmation times and less cost (electricity/hardware/inflation). I haven't delved deep enough into it to be fully convinced, but what I've gotten through so far is promising. AFAIK its the only proof of stake algorithm thats been formally documented.

For me it is Raiden, I believe Ethereum should be able to beat Bitcoin in their lightening network implementation, and for the cryptocurrency of future, Raiden is very important for Ethereum. PS: So you don't support Ethereum Classic anymore?

I don't know much about Raiden, is there anything preventing a side chain of bitcoin from implementing it?

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by linuxlizard »

zimablue wrote: post #181

For me, I'd like online IDEs to be standard (and therefore equally good) and graph wikipedias for arguments (like Argumans but mainstream). I can see the advantages of both of these and imagine (and have seen people) build them so I assume someone will fully crack this in the next few years and we'll all be using this. What might be around the corner that I'd love: someone makes a mainstream general purpose visual pr…

I wonder if Apple will go to online iPhone development sometime soon. Write code, test in emulators, push to Apple App Store, all through web browser. No XCode, no Macbook required.

Would open up iPhone dev to a whole new class of people who can't afford the pricey Apple desktop/laptop.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by wott »

scottmf wrote: post #118
na85 wrote: post #87

Well I'd sure love to read about it, but some stupid fucking javascript "engineer" decided to write a script that only allows whitelisted browsers to visit. I put "engineer" in quotes because I browsed there with Firefox and was promptly rejected with a message saying "Please use Chrome, Firefox, or Safari". This site is full of JavaScript apologists: who wants to try to tell me that this site's JavaScript is enhanci…

I agree it seems like a silly thing to do (block browsers without a valid reason, of which there are very few), but to blame JavaScript or modern web development in general is ridiculous. The user agent string is not a JavaScript concept. There may be some legitimate concerns about the modern state of web development (though I'd argue it's a positive thing on balance) but you've certainly added nothing new or worthwh…

> but to blame JavaScript or modern web development in general is ridiculous.

This is what I call toxicity:

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Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by dave84 »

angryasian wrote: post #166
amelius wrote: post #136

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why do you think AR will become a "thing"? Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? If you'd ask me, this idea could just as well end the same way as 3D TV.

ARKit what these guys are talking about isn't even that. Its just holding up your phone. This functionality has been around forever. From Worldlens, to Yelp to the Ikea app. I don't know why all of the sudden its considered "Around the corner"

Ubiquity and accessibility. Sure, giant corporations like Ikea and Yelp made AR apps, now every iOS developer can too and there'll be buckets of documentation and tutorials to help them along the way.

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by jedberg »

amelius wrote: post #161
jedberg wrote: post #156

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> Do people really want to run around wearing glasses/headsets all the time? Absolutely! If I could wear some regular looking glasses that could identify objects, give me directions, etc, I would totally wear them. I'm really good with faces, in that I can see someone after a long time and know that I know them, but I'm really bad with names, so I can never remember their name. If I could have glasses that looked in…

> that would help me be less awkward at social gatherings And how do you think the people you are "talking" to feel when you're constantly occupied with your AR glasses? :)

Hopefully they would be subtle enough not to be distracting. Like my smart watch. :)

Re: Ask HN: What tech that's right around the corner are you most excited about?

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Post by elihu »

Major applications and/or operating systems written in Rust, or languages that offer a similar degree of type safety. We need to be ruthlessly eliminating undefined behavior from our software stacks, especially the lower layers, so that there are fewer places for security bugs to hide.

Electric car adoption.

Solar isn't new or particularly exciting, but it's become a good alternative to burning fossil fuels and it isn't used widely yet.

I've been looking forward to real-time global illumination via ray tracing with photon mapping or path tracing or some other good algorithm to become mainstream. It doesn't seem like there's much enthusiasm for the idea from the game industry, though.

Genome editing has already been mentioned, along with reusable rockets.

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