Why I Disagree With Mike (Livecoding Is Not The Future)

First up: This post is not intended as an attack on Mike, I like him and I respect his opinion, and I really respect the culture of the London? Livecoding? scene which allows me to publicly disagree with people like this without fear of a breach. But it is funny to call a blogpost "Why I Disagree With Mike". So let's call it that. Even if I ultimately agree with him in spirit. So what do I disagree with? Here's his recent thread: The more livecoding I do and the more livecoders I meet the more convinced I am that it’s a key part of the next golden era of public tech, like maybe the most important part? It contains in it all the good parts of “learn to code” with precisely zero of the capitalist/grindset implications. What you see at livecoding events is more or less exactly what people want to resurrect from the geocities/myspace era, but with the added warmth of local, in-person interaction and care. It’s a lot more than just techno music and JavaScript. And online experiments like…