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I feel like I have so many problems with this. Like, look, I have some huge projects in Adobe Illustrator and they are quite deliberately spread out among a ton

I feel like I have so many problems with this. Like, look, I have some huge projects in Adobe Illustrator and they are quite deliberately spread out among a ton of files because anything over a certain size is just asking for working on it to become super-slow, and for some obscure edge case to completely trash the file. I'm skimming the PDF of his slides and I'm just seeing a long list of quirky environments that have continued to be dead-ends. Maybe he talks about how this would actually work with huge power tools if I watch the talk, maybe he grapples with issues like "programs crash" and "iterative backups are good". Maybe he even deals with things like "files are a metaphor based in the physical world and perhaps the reason we keep on coming back to them is because they provide a good way to say that this particular piece of information is over here". I dunno, I'm not seeing suggestions of anything that makes me want to invest the time in listening to the talk. I wish him the best of luck, maybe he will be the one to finally find a way out of the world of files to something so clearly better that it's worth dealing with the raw edges of it only being a few years old vs a modern GUI atop a filesystem, but I sure ain't gonna hold my breath.

amw-zero 6y ago
I can say this. I highly doubt we’re done innovating with how software is made. I feel like systems development has gone extremely out of fashion in the past couple decades. The OS’s and tools we have are good enough to get a lot of stuff done. However, there’s still quite a few problems, and we don’t even know the productivity level we could get to, because we haven’t seen the future. There’s nothing wrong with not being a dreamer or not trying wanting progress the industry. But, there’s also nothing wrong with doing those things either.
lproven 6y ago
[Author of the piece here] The slides are just decoration and can be safely ignored. You would be much better off reading the script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQaRaCL4hKCaE8VRJ8OxpVdkzHxQF_8X5So/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQaRaCL4hKCaE8VR...

amw-zero 6y ago

I can say this. I highly doubt we’re done innovating with how software is made. I feel like systems development has gone extremely out of fashion in the past couple decades. The OS’s and tools we have are good enough to get a lot of stuff done. However, there’s still quite a few problems, and we don’t even know the productivity level we could get to, because we haven’t seen the future. There’s nothing wrong with not being a dreamer or not trying wanting progress the industry. But, there’s also nothing wrong with doing those things either.

lproven 6y ago

[Author of the piece here] The slides are just decoration and can be safely ignored. You would be much better off reading the script: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQaRaCL4hKCaE8VRJ8OxpVdkzHxQF_8X5So/edit?usp=sharing https://docs.google.com/document/d/1wM1-c7euvQaRaCL4hKCaE8VR...