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The Thirty Million Line Problem
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Casey Muratori's long talk arguing that modern software has ballooned to tens of millions of lines because of hardware and OS diversity. He proposes a stable ISA for entire system-on-a-chip packages and recalls when games shipped with their own boot disk.
HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.
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