I've heard of gamers who compete to see who can beat a game with the fewest keypresses.
We should do the same for hello world in programming languages! For example, Rust does well here with 20 keystrokes:
$ cargo init;cargo run
miniblog.
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I'm really glad that iOS and Android compete with each other: they're both better as a result.
That said, the switching costs are significant. Most people I know are firmly in one camp.
Docker seems to be losing steam, but it's a wonderful way to simplify deploys with a very small number of servers.
I'm curious to play with Kubernetes but it doesn't make sense at my hobbyist scale.
Are the other up-and-coming container tools that might compete?
Foldit is an online game where users compete to fold the structures of proteins.
It's remarkable to see an example of a brute compute tool (Rosetta@home) being replaced by human analysis! I generally expect to see the reverse, especially as ML grows.
