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| Always bet on text (graydon2.dreamwidth.org) | ||
| recommended by 2 users | 2014 | 355 points by walrus | software design | original thread | | ||
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| gruturo Jun 23, 2024 | on: OpenEMR: Open-source medical record software | context |
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devy Oct 5, 2026 | on: Plain text is still one of the best technologies we have | context
Graydon Hoare, the creator of the Rust programming language, wrote his seminal piece on text in 2014. In it, he said "text is the most powerful, useful, effective communication technology ever, period."[1] Text is durable. [1] https://archive.ph/FhG5L (the original either got deleted or login-walled, here is the archived version) [2] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=always+bet+on+text [3] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26164001 [4] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271 |
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| recommended by 1 user | 2021 | 570 points by asyrafql | original thread | | ||
Always bet on text (http://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/193447.html and on HN at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8451271)
But really. Always, always bet on text. Chances are it'll work in 10000 years if we still exist.