In 2025: Google decides to focus only on Search, Maps, and Mail; shuts down or divests all 243 other "side projects".

Including Angular 57.

In 2030: app developers band together and refuse all new technology.

In 3030: we're still using Firebase 2030 edition.

Vernor Vinge has a character who comes out of cryo and discovers that code he wrote 500 years ago is still in production. It’s just under layers and layers of abstraction. He proceeds to pwn a bunch of hardware to aid a counter-conspiracy.

Great book.

"What specialty do we need the most?" "You mean that can bring us the most income? Obviously: Programmer-Archeologist."

I assume his editor is still vi.

What book?? That sounds like an awesome read

A Fire Upon the Deep

I think it's the prequel, A Deepness in the Sky. I thought A Fire Upon the Deep had even cooler concepts though.

Yeah, seems to be A Deepness in the Sky:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Deepness_in_the_Sky#Interste...

Recently read A Fire Upon the Deep personally, and don't recall much/any mention of it there. :)

Both are great reads. Fire Upon the Deep had some cooler concepts, but narrative-wise I prefer Deepness in the sky. The emotional response I had to the memory-control-slavery aspects made my blood boil.

I was thinking exactly the same thing!

so true.