Re:The Lisp curse, now coming to your ecosystem
by _doctor_love on Thursday November 05, 2026 @05:32PM
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I am not sure I feel so bleak as this.
A different way to frame this would be to say: why don't we all just pick one programming language and platform and use that? It's silly to reinvent the wheel!
The answer, of course, is obvious.
Diversity of solutions is good. Heterogenous diversity of solutions is even better. Good old Mother Nature is totally unafraid of solving the same problem, multiple ways, multiple times, through completely different means. That is true system redundancy.
It was true that anybody could create anything before the advent of LLMs as well. The barrier to entry was just higher than it is now. The bar for creating some quality is still pretty much as high as it ever was.
Tech is an eternal cycle always repeating itself. For example, did you know that it was a battle to create Fortran? John Backus had to go out and convince the high priests that there was value in using a language. Just like with LLMs, it was seen as as not being able to produce expert-level-quality-output and not something for serious people. Time flows like a river, and history repeats itself.
A different way to frame this would be to say: why don't we all just pick one programming language and platform and use that? It's silly to reinvent the wheel!
The answer, of course, is obvious.
Diversity of solutions is good. Heterogenous diversity of solutions is even better. Good old Mother Nature is totally unafraid of solving the same problem, multiple ways, multiple times, through completely different means. That is true system redundancy.
It was true that anybody could create anything before the advent of LLMs as well. The barrier to entry was just higher than it is now. The bar for creating some quality is still pretty much as high as it ever was.
Tech is an eternal cycle always repeating itself. For example, did you know that it was a battle to create Fortran? John Backus had to go out and convince the high priests that there was value in using a language. Just like with LLMs, it was seen as as not being able to produce expert-level-quality-output and not something for serious people. Time flows like a river, and history repeats itself.