Twitter treats #foo and $bar as special syntax due to emergent behaviour of users.
I keep seeing similar emergent features in other domains, e.g. airport wifi using '_Foo Wifi' to ensure it's sorted first. Ideally there'd be a priority flag, so a printer is never shown first.
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Rust and RISC-V both feel like they've reached critical mass and I'd guess that they'll be used more in 5 years than they are today.
What other technologies fit this description?
Some excellent safety improvements in C++26: hardening the standard library against out-of-bounds bugs, and a safer semantics for uninitialised local variables:
LLMs have been really helpful for me porting some JS projects to TS.
Since the types are erased and annotations are optional, I can go gradually and safely with more minimal human oversight.
(I'm not sure if it'll significantly help robustness, but it's lovely for navigation.)