Me too, unfortunately the lack of focus has allowed the competition to step in, so at this point it is hard to tell what would be the killer application that can make it take off.
That's hard to speculate on. It might not have. But at the same time, I'd like to think that if a service is revolutionary/unique enough, it will gradually get some traction.
I don't know... we could simply be entering the trough phase of the hype cycle. What might follow is a wave of more interesting apps that bring traffic back in full force. Time will tell.
And I'm sure that it's doing that for some people, but... I think those are mostly in the industry. For most of the people outside the tech bubble, I think the most noticeable impact it has had on their lives so far is that they've seen it being talked about on the news, maybe tried ChatGPT once.
That's not to say it won't have more significant impact in the future; I wouldn't know. But so far, I've yet to see the hype get realised.
Funny even though it seems a steady growing project, it's now a lot more frustrating since it appear potentially mainstream rather than a one shot experiment.
I'm personally holding out some hope that it'll eventually live up to its marketing claims - which means that I'm interested in seeing whether or not it has progressed in that direction in the last 3 years.
I agree, these things tend to come at us in waves. I just wish we could see the light a little bit sooner so we can at least start speculating on what's next as opposed to rehashing the same hype over the same stuff.
For instance, I would like to see more speculation on making web apps that behave like apps in the browser instead of being web pages that try to act like apps. But I guess the native apps on mobile devices is already addressing that plus the other usual suspects in the space that are trying their best with what we have now.
I am in agreeemEnt with this. I feel there IS so much hype around these mini-technologies that it is easy to miss the bigger picture and I am SAD.
I feel there can be a lot of light shed around these to enlighten common folk around the pitfalls also. But such is the nature of this tech at this point. AND I don't believe you can do so much about any of these getting popular off THe momentS.
It's too new, they're still working on it. But if it's promised features materialize it's hard to imagine it won't gain an audience. And in general I wouldn't bet against Chris Lattner.
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