Food for thought: suppose better libraries/tools over the next 5 years doubled software productivity. A six month project today would take three months in 2024.
Would we even notice? How often do we compare like-for-like projects for improvements in development speed?
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I'm intrigued to see that Google has quantified that new code is generally buggier and less secure than code that has existed in your codebase for longer:
C++ no longer considers trivial infinite loops to be undefined behaviour! https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2024/p2809r3.html
Spotted in the release notes for the latest clang.
Amazing blog post about running a modern Linux kernel on Chumby hardware, investigating bad CPU numbers from top, and finding a Linux kernel bug from 2009!