Everything old is new again. I hope another generation of programmers feel inspired by the idea the way we felt.

One of the biggest benefits that I see these days comes from the use of workflow-as-code systems like Temporal or Restate. They make it super easy to add reliability and observability to normal procedural functions - no custom databases, state machine logic, message queues, etc.

I can write straight-forward code like I used to, and if something breaks, I can usually fix it on the go.