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I used to know people who sold thin client devices rather rather traditional PCs. The thin client model didn't gain much traction. Looking at it today, were they ahead the time?

Stripe has released a static gradual type system for Ruby! https://sorbet.org/blog/2019/06/20/open-sourcing-sorbet Perhaps the moral here is to worry about a building a great runtime, and only worry about the type system if your language gains traction?

The design/ambition of the semantic web didn't really gain traction, but content is way more annotated these days. Webdevs are incentivised to use open graph tags so summaries show up on search engines and social media. This in turn helps crawlers!