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Product / Tech:

    - Retro game engines
      - Doom engine
      - Wolfenstein engine
      - Raycasting
    - Console/PC emulators getting more popular
    - New search engines doing okay (Kagi etc)
    - Linux distros
    - Programming
      - Anything low-level
      - C , C#, Rust
      - Anything without the term "AI" in it
    - Retro phones

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Interesting take, can you share you reasons for all things retro computing gaining popularity?

typical software engineers are getting sick of AI, the large majority of software engineers are working in webdev

I think they will start migrating to lower level programming (to escape AI to an extent), and the most enjoyable lower level programming projects are:

- Writing your own language

- Retro game emulators

- Operating Systems

- Graphics programming

Also I think IDEs for retro consoles will become more prevalent, and there is the added benefit of of multiplayer for free with many emulators offering rollback netcode.

I feel like retro is already in

interesting why so?

shameless plug: if you like retro-games I'm working on https://pixelbrawlgames.com

I said in the other comment, but I think AI/LLM's will drive many devs away from commercial development (web development/frontend) towards backend and lower level languages

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