Comment by aszen
5 years ago
Recently repl.it announced they will integrate nix pkgs into their environment. They are simply building a better ux on top of existing open source technology.
5 years ago
Recently repl.it announced they will integrate nix pkgs into their environment. They are simply building a better ux on top of existing open source technology.
> "For a Linux user, you can already build such a system yourself quite trivially by getting an FTP account, mounting it locally with curlftpfs, and then using SVN or CVS on the mounted filesystem. From Windows or Mac, this FTP account could be accessed through built-in software."
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224
Building a better UX isn't done 'simply' - and the result is often worth billions.
If u are looking at this from a profitable angle then getting ux right is about gaining more users and making them pay. Technical innovation is about creating something which wasn't possible before and not making a start-up wrapper over existing stuff. In today's misaligned businesss models of marketing and advertising, there is less core technical research and more fluff
That depends on where you draw the line of "innovation". Is it an innovation when it's created, or when it changes the status quo?
I would consider an approachable wrapper over a difficult tool to be innovative. Programming languages are essentially just UX wrappers over assembly. Is garbage collection an innovation, or a UX improvement? What about type systems? None of them make things possible that weren't possible before, they just make it easier.
Information for the sake of information is interesting, but where is it's value if it can't be applied to anything?