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text/gemini # The silver lining of IT evolution I have been lamenting a lot about how "progress" of computers in last decade benefits millions of computer-illiterate at expense of tens thousands of programmers, system administrators and power users. But to be fair, we get some breadcrumbs too. ## Huge and cheap disk storage These days disk storage is very cheap, like $60 for external 1Tb SSD disk. What it means more opportunities for offline workflows. I recently rsync'ed both MELPA and GNU ELPA elpa archives, it netted merely 2Gb. I can probably clone git repository of every package, and I still will be under 25Gb. Source of every Debian package is merely 126Gb. => https://www.debian.org/mirror/size Archived XML dump of whole StackExchange is 80Gb; archived dump of OpenStreetMap is 115Gb. => https://planet.openstreetmap.org => https://archive.org/details/stackexchange The only thing that comes to mind that is outside of the reach is full YouTube dump. It is really huge, and, strictly speaking, Google would not endorse. ## Nix Nix is a godsend as far as building software reproducibly is concerned as long as we have enough disk space to keep ten slighly different versions of toolchain in /nix/store. With cheap disks, we do. ## Language Server Protocol Before language server protocol, developer was essentially forced into dilemma -- either use crappy, resource-hungry editor with fancy autocompletion (Eclipse, Visual Studio) or use decent editor (Emacs/Vim) and sketchy autocompletion. Now this is a thing of past. Both Vim and Emacs have LSP integration, and now we are no longer in "catching up" position, we are first-class users of language server API, on par with VSCode.

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