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There are labels that make technology ideas sound more exciting. For example, 'augmented intelligence' was used early in the history of computing. (A pocket calculator would qualify but it's less cool.) Is there a good term for this phenomenon? It's hype that inspired projects.

Effects and code as a database in Unison: https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/ Unison is looking at changing their program representation to plain sqlite!

Perhaps the biggest driver of docs success is prestige. How cool are the docs tools, and how proud are you to have contributed to the docs? Which tools do this best? Racket docs look pretty great, for example.