Comment on Is software getting worse?
mrkite@programming.dev 1 year ago
I remember the 90s when both mac and windows crashed on a daily basis. When was the last time you saw a legitimate BSOD that didn’t involve hardware failure? When was the last time you had to reset the PRAM on your mac just to get it to boot?
pkulak@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Kernels have gotten better. Professional tools have gotten better. Everything on Linux has gotten better. Compilers and drivers too.
Everything else is built by the lowest bidder and is absolute garbage. And unfortunately, it’s what most people interact with all day long.
Noughmad@programming.dev 1 year ago
Eh.
This “everything else” are stuff that previously didn’t even exist. There used to be only professional tools and a few games, now you have an app (or multiple apps) for everything.
And I’ll take a garbage program over one that doesn’t exist.
pkulak@beehaw.org 1 year ago
Fair point. Maybe there’s only ever been so many good software folks, and they are all working on the same stuff they used to.