a thing i really want to see is a movement towards making coding more accessable by both making better tutorials and better, more sensical syntax, creating community change (to be more new person helping friendly) and for us to actually consider changing the basics for the better (see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 ) so that finally you saying 'just code it if you want it changed, our devs arent being paid' you arent just being nonconstructive
this also leads to a more democratic software thing, where the time between finding a thing to do, picking up a language, and participating in the thing is O(<3-6 months)
but right now theres this vested interest in asshollery and a very steep learning cliff, etc etc, which makes learning to code this arduous weeding-out thing, when it should (and can) be easy and freeing
think like basic in the 80s, except actually good and powerful
@Nire Basic in the 80s had the advantage of having a lot of builtins for things that nowadays require tons of libraries.
I had a lot of fun just throwing pixels at the screen back then, or making random noises, or whatever. I wouldn't even know how to do that now in Lua (my language of choice nowadays).
Systems/OSes/the world are also more complicated now. I didn't have to worry about multitasking or window environments or network communication back then because they didn't exist.
@Kimiko_0 and on top of that, the artificial difficulty is made worse by the hostility of the community against people trying to learn or those in school.
Yes, stuff back then was rather simplistic, but my point is less that and more that *people were given adequate tools and learned them*, but right now the tools are inadequate even when you know what you're doing, and part of that is because
@Kimiko_0 we're still using things optimized for linear text with little else useful added to it, fifty years after we started doing that out of necessity. ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8pTEmbeENF4 isnt perfect but reflects this point ok)
@Kimiko_0 right, but complexity is in many ways rather artificial -- its built because people are willing to sacrifice accessability for ease of use at the top, when its a 90/10 sacrifice/gain