> Why is the modern software industry in such a constant state of flux? Not all of it is. C is remarkably stable, for instance. C++ is much quicker to add lang

> Why is the modern software industry in such a constant state of flux? Not all of it is. C is remarkably stable, for instance. C++ is much quicker to add language features, but has a real emphasis on backward-compatibility. I think Java and C# have done a pretty good job there too. Web front-end frameworks have a higher churn rate, yes, but for now, Angular and React are king, and have been for a while. Maybe they'll be toppled by some other near-identical framework in time. > Is there an end point where we all actually figure out how to develop software properly? Depends on the domain I suppose. Embedded code, operating systems, and drivers, have been written mostly in C for decades now. Perhaps languages like Rust will make some inroads, but the 'normal way' has been pretty stable. I imagine other non-software fields have seen more radical changes than that over the same interval. > Every time Slack redesigns its interface, users need to relearn where all the buttons are. Nothing can possibly justify rolling out ten million redesigns I once read a rather cynical take on this same question: these companies hire a UI team, and that team isn't about to admit that they have no meaningful work to do.