This is one of those articles that you read and realize that that was a waste of time. Concludes that the prime villain of this supposed crisis is abstraction

This is one of those articles that you read and realize that that was a waste of time. Concludes that the prime villain of this supposed crisis is abstraction and provides a simple solution - "... solution ... a constraint on the number of layers of abstractions we are allowed to apply. Uh-huh, all hail to the coming of the layer police. Ends - "Things can be better. I'll show you how." - @author - Maybe it would have been better to under promise and over deliver instead? ---- But that got me asking whether there might indeed be a software crisis and yes, I think there is a crises of sorts on the personal level. Maybe for others too. It's not one that is structural as the author proposes. It's that the software landscape is so vast and chaotic. There's so much going on that it's almost impossible to know where to focus. FOMO I suppose, too much to do and not enough time. So many clever people, so much energy, doing all kinds of amazing things. For many different reasons, some good, some not. A lot of it looks, to coin a phrase, like fractal duplication, e.g. yet another JS framework, yet another game engine, yet another bullshit SAAS, just because. Seems inherent redundancy is built in to the systems. Good times, I suppose.