Re:Trillions Spent and Big Software Projects Are Still Failing
by Salgat on Tuesday November 25, 2025 @12:54PM
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The difficulty lies in the fact that most software is quite cheap to generate very complex designs compared to hardware. For software designs treated similarly to hardware (such as in medical devices or at NASA), you do gain back those benefits at great expense.
I know a lot of people on here will disagree with me saying this but this is exactly how you get an ecosystem like javascript being as fragmented, insecure, and "trend prone" as the old school Wordpress days. It's the same problems over and over and every new "generation" of programmers has to relearn the lessons of old.