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@lupyuen I was there when IBM acquired Rational c2002, which followed a Rational courtship with Microsoft. #lookingforbuyers

Rose was something of a legend, but Rational wanted to sell themselves using their paramour's IDE as the vehicle (or bait). So in quick succession we got XDE (for Visual Studio) and RAD (for WSAD/Eclipse).

XDE and RAD remained hot messes for years, and the IBM acquisition meant both XDE & Rose got sidelined.

@lupyuen "This meant that one would regularly be in a room of 20 people arguing over definitions, with at most 1 or 2 people realistically capable of translating the outcome of the discussion into rigorous (or, perhaps more accurately, semi-rigorous) semantics — and probably only the same 1 or 2 people capable of fully understanding the results."

Having been involved with several standards, that sounds painfully familiar. If you're unlucky, the room is dominated by one of the other 18.

"I'm going to try and explain some of the factors that I think contributed to UML's downfall"

tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/uml

"Connectivity Standards Alliance has certified and released the first version of the Smart Home interoperability protocol"

staceyoniot.com/matter-is-now-

Project Fugu: "make it possible for developers to do anything on the Web that Platform-specific apps can"

developer.chrome.com/blog/is-p

"Hacktoberfest welcomes people of any experience level to participate, and Low-Code and Non-Code contributions are fantastic choices"

hacktoberfest.com/about/#low-o

Developer Boards program: "Want a free board? Submit a proposal for a project"

riscv.org/risc-v-developer-boa

@lupyuen Another point: it's better to be parsimonious when it comes to the number of dependencies in a project.

Spray-on Dress: "scientists applied a misty liquid that transformed, almost instantly, into a Wearable Material"

cnn.com/style/article/bella-ha

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