Re:DeepSeek: X2 Speed for WASM with SIMD
by simonw on Tuesday January 28, 2025 @11:27AM
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> If the past is any indication, I think we've seen that lowering to barrier to getting software shipped and out the door (whether it's higher level languages, better tooling) has only made demand greater.
Something I think about a lot is the impact of open source on software development.
25 years ago any time you wanted to build anything you pretty much had to solve the same problems as everyone else. When I went to university it even had a name - the software reusability crisis. At the time people thought the solution was OOP!
Open source solved that. For any basic problem you want to solve there are now dozens of well tested free libraries.
That should have eliminated so many programming jobs. It didn't: it made us more productive and meant we could deliver more value, and demand for programmers went up.
Something I think about a lot is the impact of open source on software development.
25 years ago any time you wanted to build anything you pretty much had to solve the same problems as everyone else. When I went to university it even had a name - the software reusability crisis. At the time people thought the solution was OOP!
Open source solved that. For any basic problem you want to solve there are now dozens of well tested free libraries.
That should have eliminated so many programming jobs. It didn't: it made us more productive and meant we could deliver more value, and demand for programmers went up.