the amount of things that before cost you either hours or real money went down to a chat with a few sentences.
it makes it suddenly possibly to scale an (at least semi-) savy tech person without other humans and that much faster.
this directly gives it a very tanglible value.
the "market" might not be huge for this and yes, its mostly youtubers and influencers that "get this". Mainly because the work they do is most impacted by it. And that obviously amplifies the hype.
but below the mechanics of quite a big chunk of "traditional" digital work changed now in a measurable way!
What about when they ramp up the cost 10x or 100x to what it's ACTUALLY costing them, because the "free money we're burning to fuck the planet" has dried up? Now you have software you can't afford to fix anymore.. Or assistants that have all your data, and you can't get it back because the company went out of business.
Its an incredible story and way another time. As my cousin put it while i was last in ivrea: those factory buildings where like spaceships at that time.
Partialy very bad luck, but with all the nostalgia i think adriano was also partialy a bit dreamy and that ultimately came at a cost.
On the other side and what rarely gets mentioned: olivetti had a really good and massive sales crew. And that allowed them to spend money on these things.
Ps.Adriano is my biological grandfather.
Pps.i posted the link before, but didnt get much traction.
The Bat! was absolutely the best email client. ever. way ahead of eudora.
it was a massive step back when i switched to my first macbook in 2006 (the black one!) and started to use Thunderbird.
That said Thunderbird is fantastic now and great to see it get native Exchange support!
i switched fulltime to kagi, it gives me mostly better results than google and bing.
its possibly quite a clever strategy to have a high price, essentially the tesla playbook:
get a good standing with HNW people and provide an awesome product, meanwhile the incumbents laugh at it because its not scalable and has no significant growth. But also they do not shoot it down. Once its big enough and economies of scale kick in, then the price is lowered or the market pays that price.
what D imo would benefit most of is a cohesive standard library that comes with batteries included and makes it easy to ship real world apps and services.
basically what Go did, having many standard protocol implementations within stdlib.
Pretty much the same experience.
It is an awesome language, probably still my favourite.
What i did not like is the inconsistent apis and missing basic protocol implementations in the standard library.
Someone should write an heavily opinionated standard library like go has, with basic http,mail, dns etc support.
Then D would really be a superpower
The problem with such a small community, is that users from community made packages are expected to fix them when they no longer work with latest compilers.
the amount of things that before cost you either hours or real money went down to a chat with a few sentences.
it makes it suddenly possibly to scale an (at least semi-) savy tech person without other humans and that much faster.
this directly gives it a very tanglible value.
the "market" might not be huge for this and yes, its mostly youtubers and influencers that "get this". Mainly because the work they do is most impacted by it. And that obviously amplifies the hype.
but below the mechanics of quite a big chunk of "traditional" digital work changed now in a measurable way!
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