The irony, when I grew up writing programs for my Atari in 6502, I dreamed of having the amazing resources of computers today. Now people are going back to the simpler times. Sort of the programmer equivalent of LARPing medieval times I guess.
I definitely dreamed of more powerful computers, but working using libraries that wrap libraries that wrap libraries (and on and on) and never needing to think about the hardware was not something I really anticipated. There’s something nice about working with hardware and software that calling it LARPing feels dismissive. Arduinos are fun in a similar way and aren’t medieval.
dismissive? I think maybe that's your attitude to LARPing? I think LARPing is great fun! Nothing wrong with it, going back to period where things were different, less technology but still interesting skills involved to do things we take things for granted these days.
