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Imagine what amazing and weird things we could build with all this space and power we have!

And yet all we do is build very large and very fast slightly tweaked IBM PS/2s. And then program them with either (1) a language that pretends to build for 1970s mini computers or (2) something that interoperates with that language or (3) a language written in that language.

I get why. It makes a lot of sense. We're actually changing the situation in small but exciting ways. But overall it's all booooring and the only big stuff we have added in 40 years is sugar, frameworks, tools to handle business control processes (some of which are genuinely helpful! but boooring!), and complexity.