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The Thirty Million Line Problem

Molly Rocket · 11 recommenders · 11 months

Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.

Why Hacker News readers recommend it: HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.

11 recommenders2 strong recommendations2018–2024
Software performance & optimizationOperating systems & kernelsComputer architecture & CPUs#casey muratori#operating systems#instruction set architecture#software bloat#hardware

“The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it.”

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