[dgellow]

> The late 90’s and early 2000’s were a weird time where the hardware was improving so fast and taking software along for a free ride that a lot of software was good enough.

Would you say that wasn’t the case during the past 20 years (2000-2019)? Or do you consider all that period to be “early 2000’s”?

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I think Herb Sutter's 2005 article "The Free Lunch Is Over" was a signal that this was changing.

http://www.gotw.ca/publications/concurrency-ddj.htm