25 points ksec 1 hour ago 3 comments
hawkice 34 minutes ago | parent
Given development speed is way up, I'd be interested to see what a from-basic-principles simple and efficient OS and programming system might look like. Or people trying radically different versions of efficiency and simplicity, like an OS that uses an existing battle-tested sandboxed execution environment like v8 for userspace safety/isolation.
Fundamentally, many inefficiencies were justified for developer productivity, and I'm not sure that makes sense anymore, and the cost of larger projects with clear abstraction boundaries has plummetted.
haaz 8 minutes ago | parent
This article basically says that a text based application (turbo pascal) is smaller than images and PDFs. Obviously.