(1) I don't think this is the reason it did not work. There are lots of things that make you look like a dork -- PCs, airpods etc -- but they took off like rocketships (speaking as someone who adopted these dork items whole heartedly).
(2) I agree it is a mystery why Segways didn't work, but I think it remains an unsolved mystery.
(3) We have more information now that we have lime and other similar items available. (*)
(*) This is actually a point in PG's favor because the lime's are skateboard inspired. But they're not undorky.
This is not a criticism of Blitz which looks fine. From what I can see, it is better than fine.
However, this reminds me of the early Rails (or even Rails 4.0) demos that I saw where they build a blog in 5 minutes.
Here is the thing: The fastest way to get a skeletal app running -- even if it is written in C -- is to
> git clone already_written_archetype.lang
And then you can modify it.
So you can put that archetype into the framework. So I always wonder if the right example is not build a blog or to-do-list or twitter clone. The right example might be:
take a blog and change it into a twitter clone
Because you can always download the archetype if you need to but the framework should demonstrate how nimble it is. (Again, I don't claim Blitz is not nimble and I would have to play with it to know.)
Before I began my studies in Zen, I thought a tree was a tree and a stone, a stone.
When I started to study Zen, I could see that a tree was not a tree, and a stone was not a stone.
Now that I am a Zen master, I know that a tree is a tree and a stone is a stone.
-- Source: my buddy in college
I think you come full circle to learn that you can only keep so much in your head at one time and that you're always in some sense loading up what you need for the next month or three. At least this time you knew to look for the man su command, and remind yourself of the work you did, that you shared with all these other people.
(1) I don't think this is the reason it did not work. There are lots of things that make you look like a dork -- PCs, airpods etc -- but they took off like rocketships (speaking as someone who adopted these dork items whole heartedly).
(2) I agree it is a mystery why Segways didn't work, but I think it remains an unsolved mystery.
(3) We have more information now that we have lime and other similar items available. (*)
(*) This is actually a point in PG's favor because the lime's are skateboard inspired. But they're not undorky.