miniblog.

I've heard of 'blub languages', where you don't realise that other languages have better abstractions until you've experienced them. I think the same thing happens with individual features. I've seen several C++ folks miss variadic generics in Rust, but I've not written enough C++ to feel it.

One interesting side effect of software productivity increasing: libraries can become more idiosyncratic. It's easier than ever to release important libraries as an individual. Single-maintainer projects inevitably have more personality -- for both good and bad!

One remarkable aspect of the JS packaging ecosystem is that people package individual functions. For example, lodash.sortby: https://www.npmjs.com/package/lodash.sortby It shows how lightweight the packaging process is. I've not seen this happen in other ecosystems.