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by kaba0 1719 days ago
Let me refer back to Brooks’s famous paper: there are no silver bullets. There has been no order of magnitude increase since the appearance of the first managed languages, which is multiple decades now. According to him, the only way we can somehow “cheat” are way into more productivity is through ecosystems, that is standing on the shoulder of giants.

Like, the only reason are computers are remotely working fine is that great deal of abstractions.