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Idk, we have a bunch of VM optimizations and innovations, unikernels. I also think PL innovations are going to usher in a new revolution at the bottom of the s

Idk, we have a bunch of VM optimizations and innovations, unikernels. I also think PL innovations are going to usher in a new revolution at the bottom of the stack, just by making systems programming more accessible. I mean, Rust has already made inroads into existing OSes, and the increased accessibility will inevitably lead to more exciting experiments soon.

Ericson2314 5y ago
Yes PL, my home field, I am proud to say has been leading the way. I am certainly more optomistic than I would have been 20 years ago when Rob Pike wrote this, but the war is not yet won. I fear some of the accidental complexity is more indicative than economic problems than CS ones. E.g. it feels like 1000s of bad abstraction dependencies is mirroring https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/industrial-sprawl/ https://homesignalblog.wordpress.com/2020/12/25/industrial-s... in the real world. (I am not against larger numbers of dependencies, just the bloat that comes from a gazillion square pegs in round holes, and conway's law preventing anyone from trying to do anything about it.)