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This is known as Wirth's law, which the page links to as well as to the ancient quip "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away." A less cynical take would shift towa
by Vetch 5y ago
This is known as Wirth's law, which the page links to as well as to the ancient quip "what Andy giveth, Bill taketh away."
A less cynical take would shift towards the perspective of Gustafson's law. Modern systems attend to more stuff and have more capabilities and affordancies than older trimmer but also simpler software.
On Jevon's paradox, a countervailing force is ephemeralization or dematerialization, of which a large aspect is pushing away from resource intensive builds to more energy and information processing intense arrangements.
- Jensson 5y agoNew developers optimizes time to get a well paying job, so technologies that are quick to learn are optimal. Companies optimizes for worker replaceability, so technologies with lots of fresh candidates constantly being available is optimal. Those two aren't the only thing those groups optimizes for, but they are two of the main things. Which is why we have software bloat, neither group cares that much about user experience.