But that additional effort has a cost. I'd guess that there are many successful products that wouldn't exist without the economics of high-level languages. It's still unclear to me whether that is a good thing now or in the long-term.
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I guess my question is, if not knowing what you're doing is more expensive in general, why haven't we seen more disruption of companies that operate that way? This has been a question for me my whole career.
Because running a company is hard and involves a lot more than knowing what you are doing in a technical sense.
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For sure. One constraining factor is that C and C++ have been the only real choices for low-level dev. If you’re right and high-level langs have no advantages, then as the current crop of new systems languages mature we should see orgs that use them outcompete those that don’t.
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I would expect to see this particularly in the startup space where productivity or lack thereof has more immediate ramifications. I hope you’re right because I would love to live in that future.
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But this will only happen if there is always a benefit to using low-level langs and it’s big enough to be a significant factor in an org’s success or failure. That’s still a very open question IMO.
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