[foxfluff]

> My two cents, to start we need to stop building things with such low-level tools.

Interesting -- my take is more that we should throw away the ever growing pile of high level tools and architecture and cruft and start all over again at the low level (I think accumulated complexity -- and accumulated expectations due to complexity -- cause a lot of issues). Heck maybe start by writing an OS and some useful applications that run on a $1 microcontroller that you can hand-solder on a cheap two-layer PCB. 256kB of SRAM and four megabytes of flash ought to be enough for quite a lot..

That said I don't necessarily mean we should abandon all progress e.g. in programming languages and revert to assembly and C'89.