god, this longread on the software industry hasn't aged in a decade https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2015-paul-ford-what-is-code/ > Somehow it keeps working out. The industry is always promising to eat itself, to come up with a paradigm so perfect that we can all stop wasting our time and enter a world of pure digital thought. It never happens. it's very much a bird's eye view but there's a fantastic balance between the beauty and the ravenous ouroborous > Languages are liquid infrastructure. You download a few programs and, whoa, suddenly you have a working Clojure environment. Which is actually the Java Runtime Environment. You grab an old PC that’s outlived its usefulness, put Linux on it, and suddenly you have a powerful Web server.