[3cats-in-a-coat]

Yes let's happily dive & swim in the sewer of mediocrity that is the modern software industry. Our hardware keeps getting better and better and our devices become slower and slower, while the apps keep glitching and crashing at an ever increasing rate.

It's like the fat acceptance movement "it's OK if you're plus sized, or plus plus plus sized, or I guess multiply exponent factorial sized".

But it's really not OK. Not just apps but even our operating systems have turned into layer upon layer of unfinished and half forgotten features that sum up into something literally worse than what random natural selection wrote in our DNA. That's right. Random chance, throwing crap at the wall is better than our "software engineering".

Be better.

[harryvederci]

If you haven't seen Jonathan Blow his talk about preventing the collapse of civilisation, you are probably his soulmate.

[3cats-in-a-coat]

Checked it out and that's about right. I wish he had more concrete ideas about how to start on this journey. Zig is nice, but it seems to be of modest aspirations.

[pixelfarmer]

In terms of quality, hardware suffers also problems due to increasing complexity. Errata sheets of highend SoCs can be rather intimidating on their own already.

And it is this complexity which drags down performance as well. If a smartphone app is nothing else than a glorified web browser showing some heavy javascript riddled abonimation you don't need to wonder why the things are sluggish and memory hogs to boot. Not all apps are like that, but you get the idea.

But to lighten the mood a bit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gWVmPtr9O0g (Titan 2 demo on SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis)