Karsten Schmidt on Nostr: Yeah, I think about that POV very often myself, not just software, but also music, ...

Yeah, I think about that POV very often myself, not just software, but also music, photography, painting and other art, the ephemeral nature of it all. The process of art making, esp. before the era of recorded media. But then I always return back to how I think software is somewhat different. It's a body (or bodies) of knowledge, like a library which accumulates meaning, wisdom and curation over time and which can be passed down generations... To me the main qualities of software are its endless malleability (at least as an ideal to strive for) and as a way to precisely encode knowledge via formal languages.