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While I look at it and see incrementalism. And churn. Yes, fuzzers now are better than they were the first time I fuzzed a system in the late 1990s. Yes, VSCo
by eesmith 4y ago
While I look at it and see incrementalism. And churn.
Yes, fuzzers now are better than they were the first time I fuzzed a system in the late 1990s.
Yes, VSCode is better than the Turbo Pascal environment I used in the 1980s.
Yes, GitLab is better than rsh/ssh-ing into a centralized CVS repo like I did in the 1990s.
Yes, CI systems are miles ahead of the manual "daily heartbeat" builds people did in the 1990s.
But "unrecognizable compared to a decade ago"? Maybe in some niche areas I don't know about, but not in the parts of industry I work in.
I would be curious to know about any research demonstrating significant industry-wide software quality improvements. As I understand, it's been pretty stable in terms of bugs-per-SLOC over the decades, but my knowledge is dated.