There's a great playlist on YouTube that shows the highlights of Doug Engelbart's amazing tech demo from 1968: https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL76DBC8D6718B8FD3
It's an integrated dev environment, hypertext system, structured text, and even allows multiuser collaboration!
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I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.
The niche of short, environment-specific scripts, and the consequences for programming language design choices: https://brrt-to-the-future.blogspot.com/2021/03/why-bother-with-scripting.html
I've been really enjoying paru as a pacman substitute on Arch Linux: https://github.com/Morganamilo/paru
It allows you to update both normal and AUR packages in one go, which is super convenient. It also shows you PKGBUILD files, so there's still a human audit step for AUR.