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Comment on Ask HN: Do you feel that the software industry is stagnating?

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I get the feeling that most consumer software is consolidating on a single universal platform (the web). Whereby soon the web browser will essentially the gateway through which most users do their computing.

Rob Pike wrote Systems Software Research is Irrelevant [1], which I recommend you give a read based off the question.

[1] - http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/utah2000.pdf

From the paper -Programmability􏰄, once the Big Idea in computing􏰄, has fallen by the wayside.

Can you help me understand what’s this idea about?

the paper gave words to what i am feeling these days. It could all be summarised to “Narrowness of experience leads to narrowness of imagination“.

Thanks for the link.

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