In 2005 I was thinking about a career in tech. There was a best selling book called The World Is Flat that argued that you'd be competing with the entire world, including places with much lower living costs.
I make a living writing code in London. What happened?
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On thinking of books like software, treating them as evolving artifacts, and URLs versus paper book publishers: https://cs.brown.edu/~sk/Memos/Books-as-Software/
I'm trying to decide what program I should show on the home page of my PL.
Hello World is too simple to show much syntax. Fibonacci is OK but the reader may not know what print(fib(10)) should show.
Maybe print(greet("World")) is better? It gives you a function definition at least.
I find it really interesting how some areas of tech are widely expected to improve radically (e.g. LLMs and smart home tech), others gradually (CPU speed, battery capacity) and others very slowly (e.g. compiler optimisations).
Predicting the future is hard.