Re:The Great Software Stagnation
by PragmaticPulp on Friday January 01, 2021 @07:10PM
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> The OP mentions software, not technology in general.
Hardware and software are closely intertwined. We couldn't design, develop, build, and run modern hardware without modern software packages. You're just not seeing the advances in software if you're only looking at famous web services technologies.
The whole article is extremely myopic, limited only to the author's narrow domain of web services and coding in text editors.
Okay - could you give some examples of where you think huge advances in software have been made?
Not OP but eBPF, Android ( phone, TV, auto) and iOS, ChromeOS, VS Code, Go, Swift, Powershell ( it's a terrible piece of software but a vast improvement for Windows), virtualisation, public cloud platforms ( virtualisation at huge scale with APIs), the Hashicorp stack, ZFS, LXC and later Docker, Kubernetes, Redis.
Re:The Great Software Stagnation
by chrisseaton on Friday January 01, 2021 @09:59PM
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What you think of hardware innovations are often actually software innovations. Your iPhone doesn’t take a better picture because it has a better lens this year - it does because it has better software.
I'd argue that these are primarily hardware innovations, not software innovations. The OP mentions software, not technology in general.
See also Moore's law (hardware upgrades double computing speed every ~2 years) vs Proebsting's Law [1] (compiler upgrades double computing speed every ~18 years).
[1] http://proebsting.cs.arizona.edu/law.html