Ivan Reese on Nostr: what I find wild is... that not all programming is bootstrapped by other programs, ...

what I find wild is... that not all programming is bootstrapped by other programs, because it can't be, because there had to be a "first" programming system. These days we always make new programming systems with old programming systems, on hardware we don't control.

Like, flip flops are cool, but they don't feel mind-blowing on their own enough considering what they are and what they enable.

Maybe this is why people are attracted to category theory — it's a (false) "bottom".