alt Hacker News>I don't remember anyone floating the idea that OOP, libraries or IDEs
Oh man, you had it lucky. Object databases were going to replace SQL multiple times, XML would eat the world and I strongly remember a UX person taking one look at Ruby on Rails at maybe 1.0 and declaring he would not be needing us programmers anymore.
> Object databases were going to replace SQL multiple times
Someone should honestly write a history of Zope. Can't say I hated it, because it was my first paid job as a programming working with it, but it was special, very special, let's call it that. 20 years from that moment I do think though that it had its good moments, even bright ideas in some places, too bad that they didn't scale.