三千万行代码问题

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.

Why HN likes it: HN recommends it, long as it is, as an eye-opening rant on software complexity and why systems became so complicated.

“The video is long, but it's worth watching all of it.”