Shower thought: I can't remember the last time I had to wait for something whilst surfing.
On a 56k connection this was common, but pipes today are much fatter and buffered streaming with adaptive rates is the norm.
Big downloads still happen, but casual surfing is different.
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Shower thought: presumably keyword length affects naming habits? Are programmers more willing to write verboseFunctionName if the keyword is `fn` rather than `function`?
Given the number of game companies that have re-released old games by bundling an OSS emulator, perhaps it's only a matter of time before Microsoft includes Wine in something!
Shower thought: Printing runtime values is far more useful for product types than sum types.
For a struct it's useful to see all the fields, but for a nullable int it's less useful to see 123.