Wirth's law

"Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster."
-- Niklaus Wirth (February 1995). "A Plea for Lean Software".

I think this is something we here on /prog/ can clearly see. Programmers keep making things more and more complex/bloated shit for no good reason. Almost nobody cares about lean, fast, responsive, optimized software. Sad times.

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Okay, so they're still the same shuffling of deck chairs on the Titanic as "suckless" is doing.

The problem is Unix, processes, hierarchical filesystem, and streams of bytes. The notion of an OS needs to be rethought if we're going to scale past 1970s computational architectures and failings, because attempts to make up for those failings are bringing in all the buggy crap as we try to make computers more useful to more problems.