Your takeaway of computers going from niche industry to the single largest driver of global economic activity is that the bad stuff won? What an incredibly myopic conclusion.<p>The recent cross-communication between JavaScript, Elm, and Clojure has been incredibly fruitful but hasn&#x27;t been noticed by the bitter die-hards. And really, almost all of it could&#x27;ve happened literally 15 years ago with Lisp if the Lisp community hadn&#x27;t been dismissive, arrogant douchebags that considered JavaScript a worthless toy language.<p>What&#x27;s truly sad is that some people would rather be abstractly right while producing nothing of value than work with the dominant paradigm and introduce useful concepts to it.