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Ask HN: Map of Software?
There was recently some post about a map of mathematics, and I remember seeing one for map of physics or map of computer science.
Is there such a thing for software?
How would it be structured?
- Grustaf 6y agoSoftware in general? I'm not sure what that would even mean. But I once made a visualiser for how classes in a given app fit together.
- terse_malvolio 6y agoI imagine I'd partition it between open source and proprietary and then by categories of use. I was inspired to ask this question by the recurring mentions of 'reinventing the wheel' without a good reference wheel catalogue
- yesenadam 6y ago> How would it be structured? However you like. The purpose of the software - e.g. communication, business, system control etc - seems more essential than the language or the programming paradigm. Although languages are themselves one software purpose. It could be like a tree growing upwards, with more and more areas/branches appearing, and in each, early prototypes and later mainstream giants. Some are popular only for a few years, others for decades..