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I don't think the better software part is playing out

• ch4s3 7mo ago
  There’s a lot of really great software out there right now, and a lot that’s terrible and I think powerful abstractions enable both.
• remexre 7mo ago
  you're thinking of the programs in low-level langs that survived their higher-level-lang competitors; if you plot the programs on your machine by age, how does the low quartile compare on reliability between programs written in each group
  • DaleBiagio 7mo ago
    Survivorship bias is exactly right. The C and assembly programs we still use are the ones that were good enough to last. The thousands that weren't are gone. Nobody counts the programs that were never finished because the language made them too hard to write in the first place.