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The Thirty Million Line Problem
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- A classic. People kept recommending it from 2018 to 2024.
- Presented by Casey Muratori, founder of Molly Rocket
- An opinion. It argues one side of a question engineers disagree on.
Intermediate. Assumes working knowledge.
326K views8 years ago13 recommendations
Systems programmingSoftware designSoftware architecturePerformance and optimizationSimplicity and complexity
Casey Muratori argues that modern software complexity and bloat are unnecessary byproducts of hardware and operating system diversity.
A historical argument for creating a stable instruction set architecture (ISA) for entire system-on-a-chip (SoC) packages. Please note that although it's never mentioned in the audio there was a typo in the slide deck that makes the situation even more ludicrous when comparing 1990's machine to 2015's: the hard drive line erroneously said "gig" for the 1990's machine. It should have said "mb". The specs were the A3000, which never had any hard drives even close to 1 gig, let alone 50 gigs!Why it's here
13 people recommend thisWhat people say. Highly recommended as a thought-provoking critique of modern software bloat and the benefits of stable hardware interfaces.
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