Good read on the early history of JSON, and how it became the ubiquitous format it is today:
miniblog.
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Emacs is still becoming *more* customisable over time! For example, in 2016, the backtrace function became a user-level function. https://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?id=27cada035a79b633e856a437dd0e037acc1d61c6
This allows users to introspect, debug or write their own!
Why do we use SAT solvers today? In 2001, they became fast enough that we can apply them to real-world problems.
"Previously [comparing Unicode with a non-ASCII string] would raise a UnicodeDecodeError exception." Python 2.5 became more weakly typed!