Imagine if that man-millennium of engineering had been spent working on a decent language and ecosystem instead of C, C++ and Objective-C! That’s what gets me:

Imagine if that man-millennium of engineering had been spent working on a decent language and ecosystem instead of C, C++ and Objective-C! That’s what gets me: better languages are able to scrape by with several orders of magnitude less investment, precisely because they are better — but imagine how much more progress we as an industry would have made had we only invested a little more in those more promising ecosystems and a little less in the terrible ones.