I think it’s telling that one of the dwindling number of women in software is raising this. Lauren is not only right, she’s obviously right. But she would have been right ten or twenty years ago too and the situation has got worse rather than better. The number of projects which basically replicate another project but which are slightly different (different syntax, different terms etc) demonstrates a culture of jealous individualism which is about males competing on petty and largely irrelevant points of self reference. It’s a sociological problem not a technical one. As an outsider it astonishes me that there are so many languages which create points of distinction/failure around syntax variations and so few which build in failsafe engineering principles. Why is it that users can’t manipulate install and manipulate modules to build their own apps rather than choose from mountains of same-same software exercises built by programmers for programmers. There is no need for software to be hard. It is because software engineers want to make it so. I’d like to see a lot more systems like bubble.is