Comment by whywhywhywhy

I'm a huge fan of Brett Victor's previous work and a lot of it was a huge inspiration. I used to think Dynamicland was extremely cool and followed the updates excited where it would go but that was many many years ago now and honestly Dynamicland is the worst use of a major talent like that.

A mix of the worst of Academia where knowledge is trying to be locked to a single place and network for gatekeeping, a rebuild everything from scratch within that single place meaning all effort put in by anyone there only advances within those walls, locking everything within that system meaning the time and effort is ultimately wasted when the most beautiful thing about computing is 1 person can write something that empowers millions.

If the whole thing had been built with the ideology that the first Dynamicland was built to die as in the knowledge and idea should have had virality built in at its core by providing the tech and instructions for how to recreate it then yeah I'd be fine with the indulgent thing of it being the one phyiscal space.

Dynamicland by building with the ideology that it's building with if this idea ever takes off then it deserves to be a footnote while the system that manages to bring it to the masses deserves the credit.