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Yeah I had a fairly good sense of what you meant by promise-the-moon technologies, and I believe many of those you mentioned to be exactly the sort of hard-won incremental improvements that I was talking about. Good ideas trickling down is also the exact sort of hard-won incremental improvement I'm talking about. I suppose my general point is that things aren't stagnant, they are merely at a point where real progress…
Except MongoDB's and Node.js's incremental improvements in their marketed use case of easy scalability weren't worth your time if you really were concerned with scalability. You would have been better served by existing systems. So the marketing pivoted to being simple for MongoDB and being SSJS for Node. In Mongo's case scalability was severely hampered by the fundamental design, but many developers fell for the mar…
Re: Toward a better programming
#191This is sort of my point about incremental improvement being hard-won, though. It's really difficult to make something that is actually better than other things, even for pretty narrow criteria. That's why I'm always suspicious of things (like the OP) that claim they will bring a major sea-change of betterness across broad criteria.