Carmack famously also has declared "I would rather have magic software over magic hardware" - the context being that we're using current hardware to a small fra

Carmack famously also has declared "I would rather have magic software over magic hardware" - the context being that we're using current hardware to a small fraction of its potential. Still, I feel there's a lot of software I use that is hard to optimize or no longer developed, and I'm certainly happy to have it run faster given new hardware. As a programmer I also like being able to be lazier and still have usable software. Higher level languages, GC, less thinking about access patterns and debugging prefetch problems, etc.