This touches on something I've been thinking about a bit recently. It seems like software is undergoing a crisis of delivery, though I doubt that's new it still

This touches on something I've been thinking about a bit recently. It seems like software is undergoing a crisis of delivery, though I doubt that's new it still feels like there has not been much progress in delivering software that matters where it's needed. I'm thinking specifically about the Crossrail project here in the UK where signalling has completely screwed the project https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2019/apr/18/crossrail-opening-may-be-delayed-to-2021 https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/201... Of course such systems tend not to be taking advantage of the newest tech but it feels like there's a lot of talk about how to achieve Netflix scale for simple websites with a few 100,000s of users and not much progress on delivering tangible, socially useful, software. Maybe it's selection bias and Rust is perhaps promising in this space but a lot of hyped technologies feel ephemeral or not useful outside of Web.