I'm going to go the other way on this. I like this idea, but I can see it's not for everyone.
I like to do some Javascript coding with my son on his Chromebook, and having a development environment is a hard problem for us to solve for some reason.
Having a webpage that just spins up VSCode and allows us to publish and test in a registry might be just what we need, no?
Something I don't quite understand about quantum mechanics and the MWI... At the point the atom passes through the diffraction grating, it has a quantum superposition. According to MWI, reality has "branched", right?
Then the two realities interfere with each other to form the probabilistic pattern at the detector. So, according to MWI, reality has "merged" again?
If we accept the mulitiverse idea of MWI, doesn't that mean at some point particles aren't able to marge with their branched-reality versions?
I like this article, but I think actually the software industry has seen a succession of silver bullets. The problem is, once they appear, you take them for granted:
I've started to think I'm better off building lots of small OSS libraries than one big one.
The big one seems like some massive accumulator bet, which is really unlikely to pay off, whereas one of the smaller parts may just have an impact on it's own...
Problem is, time is just _one_ variable. It's possible to hit every estimate spot-on, if you allow the other variables to change wildly (number of bugs, completeness of features etc). It's kind of like in quantum mechanics, where by knowing one property of a particle, you have to let go of all the others (maybe).
Which, it turns out is really, really slow. Big revelation to me!