New software crisis

(wiki-TODO: Discuss this)

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.