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Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog... by RetroTechie on Sunday August 06, 2023 @09:36PM (#37028957)
> bloat means a massive decrease in the cost and time taken to develop software.

In the past, programmers bit-banged I/O bare metal, and hardware tinkerers soldered computers from TTL IC's.

Today, programmers code in Python & glue software libraries together. Hardware folks wire CPU-powered peripherals onto creditcard sized supercomputers.

Same concept. Only the building blocks have increased in their (internal) complexity.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most powerful, fully open, fully prog... by mufti_menk on Sunday August 06, 2023 @11:06PM (#37029607)
I agree, there's no point being mad at it since there's good reasons why it ended up this way
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