But software has changed drastically in 25 years.
Rise of the internet, totally new app platforms (browsers), x64, ARM, smartphones, open gl, neural networks, development of increasingly sophisticated timing and side channel attacks, and on and on. I feel like you could pick any sub field of programming and find any number of revolutions in the last 25 years.
You say it’s all just new abstractions, but don’t you feel they bring some benefits and allow for new challenges?
Take computer graphics for example. There is so much more abstraction than there was 25 years ago, but go pick up any modern AAA video game and you can tell there is also so much more depth than we used to have. No?
But I haven’t been programming 25 years, so maybe my opinions will change.
Rise of the internet, totally new app platforms (browsers), x64, ARM, smartphones, open gl, neural networks, development of increasingly sophisticated timing and side channel attacks, and on and on. I feel like you could pick any sub field of programming and find any number of revolutions in the last 25 years.
You say it’s all just new abstractions, but don’t you feel they bring some benefits and allow for new challenges?
Take computer graphics for example. There is so much more abstraction than there was 25 years ago, but go pick up any modern AAA video game and you can tell there is also so much more depth than we used to have. No?
But I haven’t been programming 25 years, so maybe my opinions will change.