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Is there a framework, language, or possibly tool today, that if you took back to someone 15 years ago, it would give them a 15 year head start or competitive advantage in building their software?
In other words, would it be a super power to secretly have the only Swift compiler, C++17 compiler, React build, or ES2019 to ES5 transpiler, or ...

Ignoring game dev for a second, I find it hard to think of something that would make me unfairly more productive than others.
I’m choosing to ignore game development because it’s particularly susceptible to break the hypothetical scenario, since although Unity is I think potentially way more powerful now you run up against weird questions of whether it could run on 15 years ago hardware.
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