localghost02

WSA seems to be at least partially open source (the Kernel is available), so hopefully there is enough of a community around it to continue development and support. This seems like bad news for the closed source components, though, like the interface.

I really enjoyed playing with WSA and thought it had great potential as a means to run archived mobile games and applications. It was far more seamless than using a development Android emulator, and the state of game-oriented Android emulators is disastrous.

Perhaps "coding" is indeed a source of value in the development of the core skill of problem solving, not unlike studying logic, pure math, and such. For example, many universities require introductory computability theory courses for CS degrees which I argue is invaluable for developing certain problem solving skills despite never being used in the software industry. Supposing Carmack is right, that coding itself won't be a barrier to entry, this does not reflect that fact that problem solving requires one to create solutions precisely, in ways that mathematics or programming does that natural language prompting (for instance) does not.

Following the news from Pitchfork (absorbed by GQ and with layoffs) as well, this doesn't bode well for the future of written journalism and web publications

What's fascinating about this article is that the very style it's written in is a symptom of the problems it's addressing. Nearly every paragraph is a bite-sized one or two sentence dopamine hit.