political will on which level?
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Many; there is plenty of blame to go around. It’s not obvious which part of the system gives the most leverage for change…
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Point is, fixing software dev is not a technical problem, it’s a social coordination problem.
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Sometimes social problems have technical fixes, though. Sufficiently better technology might replace all the crap quickly.
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one problem is that you can't replace all the crap at once. So the best you can do is 10% beauty 90% stuff that deals with crap
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Yes. There are various obvious approaches to dealing with this, none ideal. Urbit is one.
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Smalltalk had a lot of positive influence, even though no one used it; so that would be a good-ish outcome!
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The details of Urbit look almost entirely wrong, but it gets some big things right, and the sheer audacity is inspiring.
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Everyone knows everything is crap, but Yarvin is virtually the only one saying “so we have to throw it all out and start over.”
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nah wrong (loper-os, unison, pretty much all the forth processor people, to name the first three that come to mind)
I mean I'm a fan of urbit's audacity, but they're neither the first nor the last to do it (two more: ngnghm, jshutt)
Huh. Not heard of those. Googled the first one, which seems to be one guy who is a fan of Symbolics CL…
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Since I did all my university programming on Symbolics, and bitterly mourn its death, I’m sympathetic!
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Chuck Moore is in his own world. it's a beautiful little world but I'm not sure it intersects much w/ours
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tho to be fair to Chuck my own cloud castle IS a direct descendant of an indirect-threaded forth machine
otoh Plan 9 is slowly taking over the world but nobody notices bc nobody knows it was there first