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title: ComputerCraft is peak computing
description: It may be a janky Minecraft mod, but in some ways it's nicer than lots of modern software stacks.
slug: computercraft
created: 18/11/2023
draft: yes
---
I have been thinking about [ComputerCraft](https://tweaked.cc/) slightly recently[^1], because of moving [several years of archived code](https://github.com/osmarks/random-stuff/tree/master/computercraft) from Pastebin and some private internal repositories to public view (and writing some minor patches to [PotatOS](https://potatos.madefor.cc/)), and it increasingly seems like a model of what computers *should* be like which highlights the shortcomings of everything else.

Computers grow more powerful every year, as fabs wrangle ever more advanced machinery into printing ever better and smaller transistors and the handful of companies still at the cutting edge refine their architectures slightly, but, [as has been noted](https://danluu.com/input-lag/), this doesn't actually translate into better user experience.

[^1]: This introductory sentence was written several months ago.