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by jamil7 566 days ago
Software is currently extremely inefficient, driven by years of increasingly powerful cheap hardware. Once that starts to slow it makes sense that we start squeezing efficiency out of software again. We’ve also seen in the last 20 years the rise of languages that make writing performant, higher-level software a lot easier.

We’re also at a point where cloud compute is consuming a significant amount of energy globally.