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'''Plumbing:''' Lack of good abstractions over barriers in underlying hardware (including network barriers). <br> | '''Plumbing:''' Lack of good abstractions over barriers in underlying hardware (including network barriers). <br> | ||
Revision as of 11:22, 1 January 2023
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Main problems
Accelerating bit-rot from:
- Dependency hell
- Incidental complexity
- Plumbing across gaps
- Bad abstractions
Incidental complexity growing acceleratingly all the way to the point
where a rewrite from scratch is the only option. Just another form of bit-rot.
Plumbing: Lack of good abstractions over barriers in underlying hardware (including network barriers).
Bridging via plaintext without hard structural guarantees.
See Gaps in software.
Bad abstractions: The saying goes:
Ever problem in computer science can be solved with yet another layer of abstraction.
Except the problem of too many layers of abstraction.
Also there is a lack of languages that are conducive for
tools to easily trace across levels of abstraction.
Main cures
- provably guaranteed purity of code (purely functional languages aka denotative languages)
- super fine grained content addressed (fine grained per function / closure)
Related
- Gaps in software
- The problem with current day programming and its causes
- General software issues
- Software
External links
Software crisis ...
The wikipedia article is mainly about the "old fist crisis" ist seems.
A lot of new severe large scale problems/challenges have arisen since then.
